mikewest/privacy-budget
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14 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 14 comments · first 2019-08-22 · latest 2025-11-23
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…on AI instead of privacy. [0]: https://privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-next-steps/ [1]: https://github.com/mikewest/privacy-budget [2]: https://mozilla.github.io/ppa-docs/privacy-budget.pdf [3]:…
comment by domenicd · 2025-11-23 · in The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting -
…is preventing browser fingerprinting by limiting informational entropy from user environment. https://github.com/mikewest/privacy-budget
comment by summerlight · 2023-09-08 · in Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers -
…if it supports granular per-site control, which may be needed for certain specialized websites. https://github.com/mikewest/privacy-budget
comment by SquareWheel · 2023-05-03 · in Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge -
…what information, and eventually browsers can start enforcing something like privacy budgets ( https://github.com/mikewest/privacy-budget ). You can't do these with something always sent automatically.
comment by jefftk · 2022-11-05 · in User-Agent Reduction -
…from the same issues. [0] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb... [1] https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
comment by ehsankia · 2021-04-21 · in Everybody Hates “FLoC” -
…surface gets a score and each origin has a budget. Once you go over, something(?) happens. https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
comment by jedimastert · 2021-03-07 · in Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytic -
…which is now called privacy budget. https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/building-more-private-web-... https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
comment by summerlight · 2021-02-04 · in Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny -
Switching it from passive to active means you can count it towards https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget . Yes, sites can ask for all sorts of things, but if they ask for enough that they could plausibly be fingerprinting you then…
comment by jefftk · 2020-03-25 · in Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent -
…to switch from passive methods to active methods means you can apply a privacy budget: https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget Then sites that need some information can get it, but won't be allowed to get so much identifying information…
comment by jefftk · 2020-01-26 · in Am I Unique? -
This is part of what the Privacy Budget ( https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget ) proposal aims to tackle. Freezing the User-Agent string reduces the amount of information exposed by default. UA Client Hints means the site has to…
comment by rowan_m · 2020-01-14 · in Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string -
It changes the passive fingerprinting vector to an active one: https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget#passive-surfaces So, while UA hints could potentially supply more information than the current UA string - each item needs to be…
comment by rowan_m · 2020-01-14 · in Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string -
…seems rather promising. [1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component... [2]: https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
comment by Ajedi32 · 2019-08-22 · in Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web -
…more intrusive ones. [1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/05/improving-privacy-and-secu... [2]: https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
comment by Ajedi32 · 2019-08-22 · in Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web -
…flocks of sensitive categories, but pretty sure the default isn't going to be random. -- > https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget > Fundamentally, we want to limit how much information about individual users is exposed to sites so that…
comment by ignoramous · 2019-08-22 · in Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web