Re: Potential privacy issues of not showing suggestions in certain contexts

Archaeopteryx <[email protected]>
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Betreff: Potential privacy issues of not showing suggestions in certain
contexts
Von: Ed Lee <[email protected]>
Datum: 2015-04-23 20:23
 > Similar to how Firefox has enough data to decide that it's
 > appropriate to show a movie trailer suggestion to users who tend to
 > visit movie related sites, Firefox could have enough data to decide
 > when it's inappropriate. If a given Firefox instance does *not*
 > report back that the movie trailer suggestion was shown, one could
 > try to infer that it was because the user had a visible illegal file
 > sharing site in the new tab page.

Is it feasible to only show such paid tiles under the condition that it 
only gets shown to X% of the users so not showing the tile doesn't imply 
anything?

Archaeopteryx
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