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   Jeremiah Lee (jeremiah@alpaca.gold)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 23:41:32 JST Jeremiah Lee

   Some people are freaking out about Firefox enabling Privacy Preserving Attribution by default.

   Privacy Preserving Attribution is a sensible, well-designed feature and a giant step in the right direction for balancing privacy and the primary economic model of the Web, ads.

   All it does is tell a site you have already visited that someone got to the site via an ad without revealing PII. The attribution is delayed, aggregated, anonymous, and includes noise for differential privacy.

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   #privacy

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 23:41:17 JST feld

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     • Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse
     @lpwaterhouse @Jeremiah they should know if their ad worked by their sales performance. Any other metric is a lie.
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     Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse (lpwaterhouse@ioc.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 23:41:18 JST Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse

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     @Jeremiah "It’s reasonable for a business to know if their ad worked" No, it is not. In fact I don't even think being allowed to *make* ads in the first place is reasonable.

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     Jeremiah Lee (jeremiah@alpaca.gold)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 23:41:22 JST Jeremiah Lee

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     /2 It’s reasonable for a business to know if their ad worked. Privacy Preserving Attribution allows them to know which ads worked without knowing *who* they worked for specifically.

     Contrast this to today, where a huge number of ad and marketing middlemen companies set a bunch of cookies and report way more information about you specifically and your conversions to their networks and the company who placed the ad.

     PPA cuts out all the shady middlemen.

     #privacy

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 18:52:46 JST 翠星石

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     @Jeremiah >It’s reasonable for a business to know if their ad worked.
     No, businesses do not deserve to know if an ad worked.
     
     In my opinion, businesses should be forbidden from performing any form of invasive advertising on pain of death.
     
     A business website and a sign on a storefront are examples of non-invasive advertising, as that doesn't trick people into looking at garbage, or worse even to distract them as they're operating a 1+ tonne death machine (a vehicle).
     
     If a business is legitimate and offers a legitimate product or service, they will have no problem finding customers - pleased customers will recommend them to others and people will also find them via the storefront sign and the website.
     
     
     Governments could deal with the problem with spying in the internet by revoking business licenses of those who spy, but of course not, instead they actually help such businesses spy.