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Re: [mediacapture-region] Should we support strings in addition or in lieu of opaque identifiers? (#46)

From: Tim Panton via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 21:53:37 +0000
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To be clear, my second point is about the threat of a theoretical VC service that uses the arrival of cropTarget UUIDs as a way of collecting usage data on its competitor's other apps (say slideshow apps) - especially interestingly of users who _don't_ use the VC app, but the slideshow vendor still has to send cropTargetUUIDs _anyway_ on the off chance that the user might use the VC app. It doesn't need to actually apply the UUIDs in a live capture, it still gets usage data.
(Yes one could spam the service with fake UUIDs to prevent the stats being accurate, but that's a road I'd rather avoid). 

The existence of cropTargets as UUIDs enables this risk in a way that an opaque token prevents.

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