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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2024-09-25 14:29:04
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