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What stops a browser implementing the API but feeding made up information through it?
by ithkuil 3y ago
What stops a browser implementing the API but feeding made up information through it?
- Groxx 3y agoNothing. Until Web Environment Integrity lands too. (afaik there's no FloC attestation, but I'm not 100% confident about that)
- janc_ 3y agounfortunately, both blocking the API, or faking it, will be abused to track users, unless a significant number of users do it in the same way...
- ithkuil 3y agoBecause a tracker could detect that your topic of interest are fake? How would they know?
- majormajor 3y agoIf they're relatively unique they can just track you across sites and use your browsing history instead.
- sltkr 3y agoSimple. If the Topics API is disabled, then you are a nerd who spends too much time on sites like Hacker News, and they can show you ads accordingly.
- janc_ 3y agoDepends, but either the topics never changing, or them changing too randomly, could all be detected when combined with other tracking, and become part of your identity as such...
- peddling-brink 3y agoI imagine a browser extension could do that.