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.

  • @9tr6gyp3
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    813 hours ago

    The alternative to that is the hell that is the current internet.

    • kbal
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      29 hours ago

      The alternatives for Mozilla are: A) Try to become an advertising company, or B) Don’t.