Re: [proposals] Why would notice and consent not be adequate? (Notice and consent debate) (#5)

Question came from the last meeting. Minutes are [here](https://github.com/patcg/meetings/tree/main/2022/02/09-telecon#private-ad-measurement-and-attribution-concepts).

I've copied the minutes below and added clarification in square brackets.

> James R:thanks! Regarding consensus about new APIs. Not clear what the problem is with existing APIs. Discussing some of the very largest companies, but not the majority of participants in this group, and those larger companies are engaging in more groups. At w3c, believe we should use existing functionality / lego bricks. Proposals from different browsers or gatekeepers tend to play to their functionality/advantage. Not clear why we need to make any change from existing APIs.

> Ben: Facebook doesn’t operate a major [web browser](https://www.facebook.com/business/help/206578174518231), but looking at large browser vendors to find the possibility of shipping an API across major browsers. Don’t want to waste time on proposals that won’t be shipped by major web browsers.

> James: confused why notice and consent wouldn’t be adequate [because that is a position major web browsers seem to have taken and is a constraint that proposers seem to be working to]. For default on, not sure who controls the defaults [and how users consent to these defaults]. Why [default to a proposal that] use[s] a multi-party compute solution?

> Martin: We do not have the time to fully answer that question.

> Aram: Agreed, **please open an issue in the proposal space or on the issue thread**.

This question and the resulting thread and interest suggests it might be important to answer considering all the information provided.

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