"Instead, we want to help developers, including content blockers, write extensions in a way that protects users' privacy." "We are not preventing the development of ad blockers or stopping users from blocking ads," said Devlin Cronin in a post on the Google Security Blog. That's the message in a pair of Google blog posts published Wednesday in response to criticism of the search giant's plan to improve extensions in its Chrome web browser. I think the web is the same way - if it were more obvious what was going on, we could make informed choices as users, and the whole thing could run much more smoothly.Part of the debate concerns rules that ad blockers use to decide what to screen and what to display. The lack of transparency in the use of data is the problem there. But if I have no visibility into the use of that data, I can't decide to eat less pizza, nor do I have any opportunity to defend myself (like, what if I was buying that pizza for my son's Cub Scout troop every week?). it's not especially nice, but it's well within their rights to take my eating habits into account. Similarly, if a health insurance company says "Wow, this dude Andy eats a LOT of pizza!" - and uses that information to adjust my rates or deny a claim - that bothers me. It's the lack of transparency in data collection that bothers me. Not because of the data - it's the same as before, and I'm not all that sensitive about my pizza preference - but it's because I don't know how he got that information. it's great for me that the pizza chef understands my pizza preferences.īut if I walk into a pizza shop in a different town and THAT pizza chef says "Hey Andy! Pepperoni and onions, right?" - that creeps me out. If I walk in and the pizza chef says "Hey Andy! Pepperoni and onions, right?" - no problem at all. In my view, they problem is really mostly about the lack of transparency - both in collection and in use of data.įor example, consider the pizza place down the street from my house. Ghostery blocks the scripts from ever sending communication in the first place, so it doesn't matter if the company acknowledges your request or responds how you expected, because you never communicated with them at all. It's an elegant technical solution but it lacks the standard business practice to really offer meaningful choice. It's up to the company receiving the message to honor it - and how they honor that request can vary from organization to organization.
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