Re: Google Chrome Proposes 'Privacy Sandbox' To Reform Advertising Evils

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:47:26 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:

> 'Google's Chrome team proposed a "privacy sandbox" Thursday that's
> designed to give us the best of both worlds: ads that publishers can
> target toward our interests but that don't infringe our privacy.'

A detailed riposte
<https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/>,
which among other things says:

    Cookie blocking does not undermine web privacy. Google’s claim to
    the contrary is privacy gaslighting.

    ...

    Google has not devised an innovative way to balance privacy and
    advertising; it is latching onto prior approaches that it
    previously disclaimed as impractical.

Also note this:

    If the benchmark is original design intent, let’s be clear: cookies
    were not supposed to enable third-party tracking, and browsers were
    supposed to block third-party cookies. We know this because the
    authors of the original cookie technical specification said so (RFC
    2109, Section 4.3.5). 
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