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PrivWeeble
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PrivWeeble
9y ago
At least we have some control over the exposures discussed in the paper. Very many companies are exposing (sensitive) information to third-party email delivery services, customer feedback and polling services, etc. Thus creating a privacy
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PrivWeeble
9y ago
Well normally you wouldn't want one browser extension to interfere with another extension. However, there are contexts where that is very beneficial. Take a security or privacy extension which correctly identifies a harmful resour
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PrivWeeble
9y ago
And if Google takes steps to prevent third-party ad blockers from working in Chrome? Or renders them worthless through exceptions to the filtering API? Even if you ignore Google's Funding Choices and its potential to increase adoption
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PrivWeeble
9y ago
That's like saying antibiotics are only meant to kill the worst of one's infection. Unfortunately, there are foolish people who assume a lower dose/dosage will suffice. Even after an M.D. assesses what they need and tells t
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PrivWeeble
9y ago
Which is better than exchanging the raw personal identifiers, but still isn't "safe" from a privacy point of view. One or both parties often hold PII and other personal info, and they know which of that is associated with a
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PrivWeeble
9y ago
Either side learning that one of their customers is also a customer of the other company would be a significant privacy issue in some scenarios. If comparison identifiers are derived from an email address then there would likely be cases w