Copy-edit the Collective Privacy section. #365
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| Unfortunately, while this arrangement did improve performance, | ||
| it turned out not to help privacy. | ||
| What prevents a site from using [^a/ping^] for [=people=] who have it activated | ||
| and bounce tracking for others? What prevents a browser from opting everyone out because it wishes | ||
| to offer better protection by default? Given the contested nature of the [^a/ping^] attribute and | ||
| the absence of a forcing function to support collective enforcement, the scheme failed to deliver | ||
| improved privacy. |
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I wasn't sure exactly what we meant here by "a forcing function to support collective enforcement", so I haven't changed it to simpler wording. What should get enforced? That websites exclusively use ping instead of bounce tracking?
I'm also not sure that we're right that <a ping> didn't help privacy. My understanding is that there are tracking-blocking extensions that do block the network requests from the ping attribute, and that websites have some trouble falling back to bounce tracking in that case. Is there something we can cite that'll better demonstrate that there's a problem?
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| Different forms of collective decision-making are legitimate depending on what data is being processed. | ||
| These forms might be governmental bodies at various administrative levels, standards | ||
| organisations, worker bargaining units, or civil society fora. |
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Not vital, but wondering if we should reference: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/11/01/regulators
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In a separate PR. :)
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I significantly simplified and shortened the wording, so please check that this still says what we want it to say.
This includes the change to the principle in #363, and updates to that PR might imply that we need some other changes to this one.
This should fix #308.
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