- From: Don Marti via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:38:56 +0000
- To: public-patcg@w3.org
@npdoty My suggested principle would be reporting ad locations, not (location+user) matches. I agree that reporting location+user is a likely privacy violation. There just needs to be a principle that advertising contexts must be reported to the advertiser. Reporting the location to the advertiser helps the user by helping participants in the advertising market to enforce norms. A more honest advertising market is less likely to reward companies for perpetrating privacy and other harms to users. This applies even if you take the position be being totally neutral on the value or harm of any particular context. A good example is adware/spyware browser extensions that put ads on Wikipedia. * If the advertiser notices Wikipedia pages on their ad report, they will likely investigate because they know there are no ads on Wikipedia. * If advertising is placed through [a scheme that conceals pages from the advertisers that sponsor them](https://www.adexchanger.com/commerce/meet-performance-max-the-blackest-black-box-of-all-google-ad-products/), then more adware/spyware developers are incentivized to trick more users into installing harmful software. -- GitHub Notification of comment by dmarti Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/patcg/docs-and-reports/issues/36#issuecomment-1476467108 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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