Please differentiate between non-personalized/non-tracking AdSense and regular AdSense #2046
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DNT policy
EFF's Do Not Track policy: www.eff.org/dnt-policy
enhancement
heuristic
Badger's core learning-what-to-block functionality
Is it possible to encurrage the use of non-personalized/non-tracking AdSense ad units by differentiating between ad requests for personalized/targeted ads and requests for non-personalized/non-tracking ads?
Both types are requested from
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
and right now Privacy Badger has decided to block all requests to this domain. However, websites can opt to request non-personalized/non-tracking ads from Google using AdSense’s newrequestNonPersonalizedAds=1
API . Non-personalized requests use cookies to combat fraud and rate-limiting (not showing the exact same ads repeatedly). However, they don’t track you or show ads based on websites you’ve visited in the past. It’s a revival of Google AdSense’ original contextual advertisement premise where the ads are based on the contents of the current page only. More details here.Non-personalized ad requests ha the additional URL parameter of
&npa=1
. Privacy Badger could look for this parameter in requests to AdSense domains likepagead2.googlesyndication.com
and temporarily whitelist the domain to let the requests go through.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: