Thread · 6 tweets · 1 Apr 2021

Sure, I mean, the nutshell version is that it is a core (I believe unspoken, but necessary) assumption of the Sandbox work that obtaining consent for tracking isn't right.

If it were right, then you could just move consent to the browser in a nice little doorhanger prompt, make it a worldwide requirement to get 3P cookies — done! None of that complicated stuff is needed, you can get a junior engineer to solve it inside of a release cycle.

So, ok, it's not the right way to do privacy. (I agree.) That means that, to give an example, the dialog below that requests consent to track behaviour on just one single site, is not right for privacy. That's fair!

But somehow — somehow! — the prompt below that requests consent to track behaviour across *all the Web* is fine. It's funny but they look a lot like they're pretty much the same thing to me. Two things are possible: either it's a miracle, or one may question Google's honesty.

The most worrying thing from the "Justin Thread" that @kyotonio mentions is that it seems like the Chrome people are completely blind to this. It simply doesn't cross their mind that anything they do might not be entirely ethical and above-board.

I think my mistake in that was to try to get to agreement or agree-to-disagree in increments, but that just drove him to more anger and denial, and he felt like it was a "trap" that he somehow dodged. I mean — the facts are there.