User from user's agent, and expanding third parties

[jwrosewell]

Started to separate out "users" from "user's agent".

Expanding third party to consider all parties that are not first party origins.

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[joshuakoran]

I think there are two good points being clarified in the edits:

• Distinguishing identification of a particular user from identification of a particular person's user agent across different sessions or interactions with different origins (aka publisher domains)
• Given end user's perspective, ensuring fingerprinting is addressed regardless of whether it is attempted across different origins or not

I think the distinctions raised in these suggested edits are worth clarifying in the document.

[hadleybeeman]

Hi @jwrosewell — we're just checking on this. It looks like there are a bunch of review comments that have come in. Are you still working on these edits?

[jwrosewell]

Yes. I've a number of relates issues and changes that I expect to file this week.

[jwrosewell]

Update. I'm awaiting further input which I expect to recieve next week at which point I will post again.

[jwrosewell]

Following Texas vs Google and the material in relation to privacy fixing this PR is taking longer to progress than I'd envisaged.

"Google actively coordinates with its competitors when it comes to privacy," the suit says. "Of course, effective competition is concerned about both price and quality, and the fact that Google coordinates with its competitors on the quality metric of privacy - one might call it privacy fixing - underscores Google's selective promotion of privacy concerns only when doing so facilitates its efforts to exclude competition".

I expect to return to it early in the New Year.

[plinss]

Closing this. Timed out with no contributions.