I still don't understand why the highest entropy APIs aren't gated behind browser consent.
A news site doesn't need to do audio processing on my machine and read back the buffer? It doesn't need to use webgl to render triangles to an offscreen buffer?
Broad geographical targeting shouldn't be an issue. In fact, it's so easy that I think we should invent an ad-targeting API people can opt in to. If I could tell advertisers my geographic location, gender, age cohort, languages, and 3 interests, I'd not feel that's an invasion of privacy when they use that to deliver ads. I'd just get lawnmower ads instead of shampoo ads and that's fine.
The problem is, they don't want to use that kind of targeting.
They want to target me with ads for a travel destination that my coworker mentioned in a Messenger message to another coworker five minutes ago. But we should just not accept that.
A news site doesn't need to do audio processing on my machine and read back the buffer? It doesn't need to use webgl to render triangles to an offscreen buffer?
Broad geographical targeting shouldn't be an issue. In fact, it's so easy that I think we should invent an ad-targeting API people can opt in to. If I could tell advertisers my geographic location, gender, age cohort, languages, and 3 interests, I'd not feel that's an invasion of privacy when they use that to deliver ads. I'd just get lawnmower ads instead of shampoo ads and that's fine.
The problem is, they don't want to use that kind of targeting. They want to target me with ads for a travel destination that my coworker mentioned in a Messenger message to another coworker five minutes ago. But we should just not accept that.