Re: [admin] Consensus Call: Adopting Privacy-Preserving Attribution into PATCG (#26)

@martinthomson Yes, the other outstanding problem is concentration/centralization risks. A large platform company that is the recipient of lots of off-web surveillance data would be an ideal position to benefit from "stealing" attributions -- and, although a platform company would likely not do attribution stealing deliberately, an ML system trained to maximize PPA results would "learn" to do attribution stealing in a way that would be hard to figure out from the outside without a usable fraud reporting feature.

The ROI from PPA attribution fraud would tend to grow with platform size and surveillance capability, while legit conversions not only don't scale, they depend on the legit site being fortunate to get effective ads, and ad effectiveness is hard and difficult to predict in advance.

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