- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 21:15:35 -0500
- To: public-webpayments@w3.org
On 02/21/2014 10:07 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote: > Well, the idea is that by having a unique key at each site the sites > can't track you. If sites require a verified e-mail address the > unique key add no privacy unless you have a huge number of e-mail > addresses. It's the classic theory versus practice :-) Not to mention that even if that's not the case, Google Analytics, the use of advertising networks, and evercookies make it trivial to track someone given moderate resources. I'm not saying that it's not worth attempting to solve the pervasive monitoring issue on the Web, just that that is a very difficult problem to solve because of the amount of money going into ensuring that corporations /can/ track people very accurately. -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: The Worlds First Web Payments Workshop http://www.w3.org/2013/10/payments/
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