Nick Doty

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Sure! If I knew which file was the current working draft, I would happily do that. `dnt-policy-discussion-draft2.txt`, maybe? `dnt-policy-1.0.txt` seems like the latest, but that also seems intended as a...

Ultimately, the idea is that it would be easier to implement checks if you were looking for a particular URI in a JSON file, rather than downloading txt files and...

I think maybe this is a question about how Google intends to provide single sign-on or related functionality with their proposed deprecation of third party cookies. (Is that right?) That...

In considering this attack, we should also note that some attackers may be able to combine some data they have about sites the user has visited (in addition to assumptions...

> > Could a browser (or some other party) give me some confidence about what is likely interpreted about my history from my id? > > The "some confidence" part...

> The assertions relevant to Willful IP Blindness are of the form "We don't do X", and they can be backed up by an audit that is plausibly able to...

> Of course we don't intend to assign cohorts randomly, we intend them to be influenced by browsing behavior. So maybe that leads to a situation where some cohorts contain...

I was highlighting the need for transparency of interpretations of cohorts in part because the algorithm that generates the cohort identifier from browsing history (or even from some other set...

Why would we expect cohort IDs to be different for different sites, even if they were generated on visiting a site and sticky for some period of time? If cohorts...

The issue title seems open to confusion. Is the concern (that @pes10k has but @kdeqc doesn't) that a user could be shown targeted ads based on a cluster of some...