| ▲ | akersten 5 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Agreed, this can't be worse than what it's replacing. The mistake is assuming this replaces anything instead of becoming just one more piece of the tracking puzzle. Even if it did "replace" cookies or whatever, it's strictly worse than "before" because it's giving advertising a front seat in the browser. My browser should be doing precisely nothing to help you attribute your ad impressions or whatever. But now Mozilla et al have to waste their time maintaining and augmenting this opaque piece of mathematical faff. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Ajedi32 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is a debate I've seen many times now on HN. I sympathize with what you're saying, but the flip side is that many users seem to prefer a free ad-supported funding model over a paid, ad-free model. If a site is going to be serving me ads anyway, then all else being equal I'd rather them make as much money off each impression as possible to incentivize them to keep providing me with free services. The privacy and resource cost of a user's browser sending anonymized attribution statistics is very minimal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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