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  • Ah gotcha, thanks for bringing in the source - that does come down to the ISRG selling it. The thing I’d missed in your quote is that it’s referring to aggregate data. So yeah, how that meshes with what I’ve read is that the ISRG won’t be able to view user data, but indeed the ad performance data would be sold to advertisers.


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    for the third party services that do the aggregating, which will “sell” (literal quote) the aggregate data

    You’re saying you’re literally quoting the ISRG as planning to sell the data? Because that goes directly against what I’ve read about this, which I believe says that they wouldn’t even be able to because they can’t see the data.



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    Advertisers can already easily get this data without this setting, and any measures you take to block ads also by definition affect this setting.

    Meanwhile, if this works and becomes widely available, regulators will be able to take measures against user surveillance without having to succumb to the ad industry’s argument that they won’t know whether their ads work.

    And yes, this provides data to advertisers, but it’s data about their ads, not about users.