patcg-individual-drafts/topics on Hacker News

…of 3rd party cookies... so like, that was the absolute minimum bar. It's a curious list of topics: https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/... Does anyone know how the taxonomy was created.

comment by philipwhiuk · 2024-09-15 · in Using the Topics API (Chrome Only, Opposed by Firefox/Safari)

The browser keeps track of he top 5 categories from this list of these 629 topics. https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/... Other than when it returns a random topic, the browser only reveals a topic to a site if…

comment by charcircuit · 2023-12-22 · in How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should

…with coarse-grained advertising topics that the page visitor might currently be interested in.” https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics#the-api-an...

comment by vladharbuz · 2023-09-11 · in Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads

…granular. Not all of them are public, from what I can tell. Here's an example of some that are. https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...

comment by stonogo · 2023-09-10 · in No Google Topics in Vivaldi

…~600 more detailed entries and it is rapidly growing. The goal seems to be well in the thousands. https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/... https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...…

comment by josefx · 2023-09-08 · in Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

…that made the people responsible for the UX present it to the user through misleading copy. 1: https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics

comment by tobr · 2023-09-06 · in Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

…some of your recent topics of interest are pregnancy tests and abortion pills Those aren't topics. https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/... https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/... >knows that…

comment by charcircuit · 2023-09-06 · in Go to Chrome://settings/adPrivacy to turn off the spyware that in Chrome

…[2] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/622 [3] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics

comment by troupo · 2023-07-28 · in Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

> [0] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/ ... Nice v1 at the end. We can assume that this list is final and will not be changed? > nor (by policy) other kinds of sensitive PII. Yeah, it just exposes interest in…

comment by josefx · 2023-06-27 · in Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

…so that you can't actually infer the user's real interests from a single ad click like that. [0] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/... [1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/privacy-sandbox/topics/ove...

comment by jsnell · 2023-06-27 · in Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

…to "attest" that they won't abuse the API. Clearly they're taking privacy concerns seriously /s https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/issues/74#...

comment by bogwog · 2023-06-27 · in Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

…fascinated by this attempt to create a taxonomy covering every possible category of targeted ad: https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...

comment by simonw · 2023-06-27 · in Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API

…there be hands on the wheel at W3C that approach the solidification of e.g. the Topics taxonomy https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/... from a neutral perspective that takes into account the various ways in which…

comment by btown · 2023-02-01 · in W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

…on-device and only send the topic (eg. [1]), which is only a few bits of information. [1] https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...

comment by gruez · 2023-01-16 · in Why Alexa won't wake up when hearing "Alexa" in Amazon's Super Bowl ad (2019)

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Topics API: Browser support for Interest-based adverts without 3rd party cookies

story by marcopolis · 2022-12-02 · 0 comments

…FLoC ( https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/privacy-analysi... ), and looking at Topics ( https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics ) Chrome seems to have spent a lot of time addressing that feedback.

comment by jefftk · 2022-06-16 · in Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting

…else. If a site doesn’t load without cookies I don’t use it. See also, the topics api on GitHub: https://github.com/jkarlin/topics

comment by u2077 · 2022-03-31 · in Chrome’s “Topics” advertising system is here, whether you want it or not

…of this tracking will be baked into the browser itself (as if it isn’t already). The topics api: https://github.com/jkarlin/topics

comment by u2077 · 2022-03-17 · in Google Analytics 4

…("how do you figure out who to show your ads to?"), and FLoC 2.0 is the Topics API proposal: https://github.com/jkarlin/topics Mozilla's proposal here is for conversion tracking ("how do you figure out whether your ads are working?"). It…

comment by jefftk · 2022-02-11 · in Privacy preserving attribution for advertising

Is this the Mozilla equivalent of Google 's Topics[1] (previously FLoC)? [1] https://github.com/jkarlin/topics

comment by richardfey · 2022-02-11 · in Privacy preserving attribution for advertising

…its initial experiment) To be eligible for generating users' topics, sites wil have to use the API. https://github.com/jkarlin/topics It is remarkable to me that Google can freely experiment on whomever they wish. If the experiments…

comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2022-01-29 · in Rebranding FLoC Without Addressing Key Privacy Issues

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Chrome proposes Topics API (FLoC v2)

story by jefftk · 2022-01-25 · 0 comments

…sending it so nothing to worry about here. Secondly, the initial list of topics can be found at https://github.com/jkarlin/topics/blob/main/taxonomy_v1.md . “/Finance/Grants, Scholarships & Financial Aid” is interestingly scary as a target…

comment by robin_reala · 2022-01-25 · in Get to Know the New Topics API for Privacy Sandbox

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The Topics API

story by citrusui · 2022-01-25 · 2 comments