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> Calling that "black and white thinking" is not an argument that advertising is good I never said this proposal is any good. I don't know if is as I just look
by arp242 2y ago
> Calling that "black and white thinking" is not an argument that advertising is good
I never said this proposal is any good. I don't know if is as I just looked at the general overview, and that's not really enough to make a judgement one way or the other. As a general point I do think it's a problem with solving.
What I am saying your case for "it's bad" is entirely without substance and seems to be based on axiomatic black/white thinking.
- JoshTriplett 2y agoThe substance of my case is "this won't work, this provides no value to users, this is disclosing a non-zero number of bits of information about users, and this is nothing but attack surface area for potential information disclosure". Once you have a non-zero number of bits flowing from the browser to advertisers, that's a path to try to extract more bits of identifying information than the browser intended to provide, by any number of means. There will be lots of people trying to deanonymize users from the data. There will be warrants served to the intermediary. There will be attempted security breaches on the intermediary. Those are just a few bits of potential attack surface, all of which is entirely unnecessary.