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  skybrian
  > Don’t look for a section on permissions or consent in that document, by the way. There isn’t one. And nothing about nerd lawyer stuff like “opt out of sale” or “objections to processing” in there, either. The Big Tech companies want a two-track system, where other companies’ ad features are required to do all the privacy regulation hassles, but the browser’s own built-in tracking feature is something that people have to find the right setting for and turn off.This language to make consent popups sound good is suspicious. Not being interrupted while you're browsing is good. A browser setting that people can turn off once, for all participating websites, is good.
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  gruez
  I'm not sure what this blog is complaining about.>Problem one: Over-rating search, social, and app store adsIsn't this a problem with today's ad attribution system? The author doesn't try to argue how the new system makes it worse.>Problem two: Incentives for extra trackingSame as above. It sounds like he's against attribution in general, which is an okay position to have, but I'd rather he say this upfront and more directly rather than spending 1k+ words on what essentially can be boiled down to "I hate Attribution Level 1 because it's attribution, and attribution is bad in general", and implying the issues he has are issues with Attribution Level 1 specifically.
• theamk
  This seems like this is written by an advertiser who wants their profits, but pretending to care about privacy so they get users' support.Here is a more honest summary:"This proposal hurts us, small advertisement networks and professional marketers. Reject it, or we will ramp up the tracking to compensate for the lost opportunities!"
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  powerpcmac
  Closed immediately due to the invasive "using this site means you agree to our terms of service!!" Popup
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  sandcat_
  > When Meta, Google and Apple [and Mozilla] agree on a “privacy” feature, watch out.?This feels like a good sign, to me. I get far more worried when I see the likes of Meta, Google, Spotify, Epic etc team up.
• sporadicism
  You can tell who works in adtech
• shevy-java
  > called Attribution Level 1, as a standard feature of web browsersWe need to eliminate private companies from our browsers in general. Many years ago they called it "acceptable ads".
• troupo
  The next time anyone on HN says "GDPR should've been a setting in the browser", I'll just point them to this. This is what browser vendors are making as a default setting.
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  AndrewKemendo
  So they “reinvented” HTTP cookies but with only advertisers?> Technically, the way it works is that a script running on a site with ads asks the browser to record an ad impression. Then the browser keeps a record of ads seen from all the sites you visit. Later, when you buy something, the retail site can ask the browser to generate a “conversion report” that can be passed to a centralized aggregation service.
• anon
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