>* If you're objecting to the goals of the proposal [1], it'd serve you better to outline which goals are objectionable and why. Mozilla folks did a good job at articulating that in https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is...
Well, you asked for it, so here goes. WEI (IIUC) requires (at least the proposal claims such a thing) "attestation" of my devices in order to ensure that advertisements (and the sites they are displayed on) are actually viewed by humans and not bots engaged in gaming the ad system and 3rd party content creation.
The proposal would require me to give (without choice or recompense) data, CPU cycles, network bandwidth and, most importantly some portion of my privacy to accomplish such "attestation."
Without allowing such intrusions on my private property (i.e., my devices), the proposal as it stands, could (and with wide adoption, would) block me from accessing sites of my choosing. And that's antithetical to the idea of the open internet.
I provide a bit more detail in this comment[0] in a different discussion[1] of this proposal, wherein I detail that these are issues between advertisers and Google that have absolutely nothing to do with me.
Why should I be required to donate CPU cycles, storage, bandwidth and give up some privacy so a multi-hundred billion dollar corporation can better serve its customers (again, neither of whom I have any sort of business relationship with) and improve its financial performance?
Perhaps you could enlighten me on what benefit WEI has for anyone other than Google or its customers (that'd be advertisers)?
Well, you asked for it, so here goes. WEI (IIUC) requires (at least the proposal claims such a thing) "attestation" of my devices in order to ensure that advertisements (and the sites they are displayed on) are actually viewed by humans and not bots engaged in gaming the ad system and 3rd party content creation.
The proposal would require me to give (without choice or recompense) data, CPU cycles, network bandwidth and, most importantly some portion of my privacy to accomplish such "attestation."
Without allowing such intrusions on my private property (i.e., my devices), the proposal as it stands, could (and with wide adoption, would) block me from accessing sites of my choosing. And that's antithetical to the idea of the open internet.
I provide a bit more detail in this comment[0] in a different discussion[1] of this proposal, wherein I detail that these are issues between advertisers and Google that have absolutely nothing to do with me.
Why should I be required to donate CPU cycles, storage, bandwidth and give up some privacy so a multi-hundred billion dollar corporation can better serve its customers (again, neither of whom I have any sort of business relationship with) and improve its financial performance?
Perhaps you could enlighten me on what benefit WEI has for anyone other than Google or its customers (that'd be advertisers)?
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36860125
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857032