• marcos@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If they were violating people’s privacy, it would be completely unacceptable to make it opt-out.

    But they aren’t. They are doing things that some people believe they’ll want to violate people’s privacy in the future to do in a different way.

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      2 months ago

      I didn’t know what it was, so I looked it up. Their description is here:

      https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/08/22/ppa-update/

      It sounds interesting… It also sounds like it will fail, because Mozilla seems to think that trackers are primarily interested in collecting ad stats, and that targeted advertising is less critical, but I think in reality it’s the other way around, and advertisers won’t accept such a limited solution.

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        2 months ago

        Oh, I wish them the best and hope they succeed.

        But I also think they’ll fail. And not even for that one reason, I think there are enough advertisers not interested on tracking to make it succeed. I just think they’ll flounder it. What is too bad, because they are the ones best positioned to make it.