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Loss of IP Metadata #22

Closed jbradl11 closed 1 year ago

jbradl11 commented 1 year ago

IP addresses serve a variety of use cases beyond anti-fraud. IP can be used for analytics, measurement, regional preferences, tracking paid subscribers, and many more. As Chrome seeks to mask IP addresses, we are working to ensure that valid use cases are preserved while also improving privacy on the web.

How does blocking IP challenge your different use cases? What other ways could actors achieve these use cases without IP addresses used for fingerprinting? What potential replacement signals could we extract from an IP address and pass as a new, standalone (and possibly attested?) signal?

miketaylr commented 1 year ago

Closing and locking in favor of https://github.com/GoogleChrome/ip-protection/issues/1