- From: Carmen Balber <carmen@consumerwatchdog.org>
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:21:15 -0500
- To: "public-tracking@w3.org" <public-tracking@w3.org>
> 9. A user sees an advertisement for Chips Ahoy cookies. The user wants > to buy some cookies, so they click the ad. The Nabisco is a first party. > Nabisco may have hired many advertising companies as vendors. In this case, the advertising company that delivered the ad is still third party, correct? > 10. A user sees a tweet which says "Check out this awesome NYT article > bit.ly/1234". The user clicks the link, expecting to be redirected by > bitly to the New York Times. Twitter, bitly and the New York Times are > all first parties to this interaction. What if the user clicks a hyperlink without the bit.ly address spelled out? User has no reason to know bit.ly is involved, and bit.ly should be a 3rd party. Also agree that URL shorteners in general are a tricky case - it seems pretty sneaky for bitly to be a 1st party. > 11. A user sees a tweet which says "Check out this awesome NYT article > nyti.ms/1234". The user recognizes that that this is a link to the New > York Times, but doesn't know that the New York Times has hired bit.ly to > do URL shortening. The user clicks the link, expecting to be redirected > by a shortener to the New York Times. Twitter and the New York Times are > all first parties to this interaction. bit.ly is a service provider for > the New York times. > 12. A user clicks a links which says "Awesome NYT Article" and points to > framing.com/nyt1234. This page loads nothing but a frame which contains > a New York Times article, but all links are rewritten to pass through > framing.com rather than pointing at other NYT articles. The New York > Times is a first party. Framing.com is a third party. How is the NYT a first party in this case, if the user never goes to their site? > 13. The user clicks one of these links to go to another NYT artcile, and > gets directed to framing.com/nyt1235. The New York Times is a first > party. Framing.com is a third party. > -- Carmen Balber Washington Director Consumer Watchdog 413 E. Capitol St. SE, 1st Floor Washington, D.C 20003 p:(202) 629-3043 http://www.consumerwatchdog.org
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