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Protecting Your Privacy While Eroding Your Democracy: Apple's and Mozilla's PPAs (Privacy Preserving Ad Attribution) Considered Harmful (www.quippd.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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These browser vendors have produced browser-based PPA (Privacy-Preserving [Ad] Attribution) technologies that attempt to establish a world where “advertising online happens in a way that respects all of us, and where commercial and public interests are in balance”.1 Unfortunately, after studying each proposal, I predict they will inadvertently lend themselves to further incentivize the publication and spread of low-quality information (including misinformation), polluting the information landscape and threatening democracies worldwide.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This would require increasing the number of people willing to accept that their web browsers are made by an ad company

There are billions of people using browsers built by an ad company.

More likely, the only substantial result will be Firefox losing ground even more quickly in the battle against a Google monopoly on web browsers

It kinda feels like you didn't read what I wrote, but I didn't really go into competitive analysis; I assumed that PPA was the new game in town.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assumed that PPA was the new game in town.

It kinda feels like you didn't read what I wrote. That very assumption is what I was calling optimistic. Unrealistically so, I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps -- and maybe I can try exploring that.

Still, the supply curve of content shifting right is already happening. Quality content is already being crowded out. PPA is just part of the monetization story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True, I was ignoring the distinction between the supply of shitty web pages and the supply of attribution-recording advertising opportunities provided through them. Not quite the same thing even if they do seem likely, as you proposed, to be closely correlated in the scenario where Mozilla's product somehow ends up surviving to become a hugely influential new ad platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I assumed that this would be standardized - not assuming that the Mozilla platform would be the one that was influential.