Data anonymization is often undertaken in two ways. First, some personal identifiers like our names and social security numbers might be deleted. Second, other categories of personal information might be modified—such as obscuring our bank account numbers.
Neither of those is what PPA does.
Of course, they're right that history has shown that this isn't easy. Hence:
It's not in release yet, right? If your definition of "landed" is "someone wrote the code and now it's in Nightly", then sure, but why is that a problem? If you're using Nightly, you're choosing to use experimental features that might not look like their final behaviour (or even get released at all).
But it hasn't landed in a Firefox release yet. Nightly is literally "someone wrote some code yesterday, and it's in Nightly today". Anything can still change, e.g. settings, defaults, anything. There is still lots of room for the community to give input before actual users encounter it.
Where did you get that from? That doesn't match at all what I have read. (At least not when it comes to this system - but maybe you're talking about Google's Topics API?)
Yeah, I get why it's there and agree that it's probably a good default. It's also something I wouldn't want for myself and would be happy to toggle.
I also realise that we're all just talking about Nightly. I'm hoping the toggle appears at some point, will report bugs if I encounter them, and am going to hold back on the outrage for now.
Right. And the proposed system doesn't allow for that either, as I understand it. Instead, you show ads for baby clothes next to an article about how to burp your baby, and then learn how many people buy baby clothes via that article without knowing anything about the people reading that article.
But I feel like selling my privacy to massive firms so that they can analyze my habits to serve me ads about things I would be statistically more likely to buy is a bad solution to this problem.
That's why they're looking for an alternative solution, no? As I understand it, this only tells advertisers which ads get clicked on how often, without sharing any data about you specifically.
We didn't used to have tracking, you know? You used to just put up a billboard or put an ad in the newspaper and you just hoped it'd lead to new customers.
Even back then people tried to find ways to measure the effectiveness of the campaigns. For example, you'd get a discount if you passed a coupon or a coupon code, which would tell the seller that your purchase was in response to the ad.
It's not on mobile yet, it's only on specific websites, and as I understand it, it doesn't even do anything unless you click an ad.
Which is completely different from Chrome's system, which sends information about you to websites regardless - and they haven't even fenced off third-party cookies yet!
And none of the outraged people has actually described how information about you would actually be known to advertisers, so I don't see why people assume it will be.
Ja shit, ik kwam er dezelfde dag nog wat tegen met deze post in mijn hoofd, maar inmiddels was ik 'm weer vergeten :P Maar bijv. in dit artikel staat Marjolein Faber er niet heel goed op. Zou me niet verbazen als er PVV'ers zijn dit dat een hit piece noemen.
Het ging mij er om dat andere kranten websites (Volkskrant, NRC, Trouw) het vlak na de verkiezingen in het VK het hadden over de historische en grote winst van Labour, met Farage eventueel in een bijzin, en zeker geen filmpje met Farage bovenaan het artikel.
Wellicht, maar als ik alleen even op de site van VK kijk vind ik al snel dit artikel - zeker niet slechts een bijzin voor Farage. Net als de NOS zijn er natuurlijk óók genoeg artikelen waar het gaat over de winst van Labour (hier bijvoorbeeld de NOS die het heeft over de grote winst van Labour, met Farage in een bijzin), maar zijn opkomst an sich is voldoende nieuwswaardig om ook een artikel aan te wijden.
Dat ze het niet slechts over zetels hebben lijkt me niet meer dan terecht; dat zegt meer over het scheve kiesstelsel dan over de stemming onder de bevolking in het VK, en is dus voornamelijk relevant wanneer het gaat over wie gaat regeren.
A Word About Private Attribution in Firefox, by the Firefox CTO.