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"Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again (blog.privacyguides.org)

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[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Great article, Makes a lot of the arguments I made against advertiser and mozilla apologists in the previous threads better than I could have.

I think

PPA is an additional privacy attack surface that has no value for end users whatsoever [...]

and

If they truly believed this was the one path away from the constant data theft perpetuated by the advertising industry, they would've announced this loudly and proudly. They could've given the privacy and general Firefox communities ample time to scrutinize the protocol beforehand.

sums it up pretty well.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 27 points 2 months ago

They could've given the privacy and general Firefox communities ample time to scrutinize the protocol beforehand.

Like when they announced they were working on it in 2022: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/

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