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thezedwards Myles_Younger jaredrileysmith eric_seufert Def not a stupid question Myles_Younger! I'm not sure tbh. There are a bunch of standard ways and they could be doing something non-standard also, since they control the OS & browser. But I'm assuming that it is indeed like Zach has above, some sort of reverse proxy approach...Permalink On twitter.com
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thezedwards Myles_Younger jaredrileysmith eric_seufert So your requests get forwarded to an intervening system which then makes the request on your behalf to the target server takes the response and passes it back to you... but that does seem *expensive* to do for all Safari users? I dunno, it might be something else entirely.On twitter.com
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thezedwards Myles_Younger jaredrileysmith eric_seufert The problem of the expensiveness of actually obscuring IPs was why the IP Blindness proposals from Google were dependent on an independent servers blocking IPs & getting some sort of certificate or an attestation on behalf of the ad tech system that they weren't recording IP.Permalink On twitter.com
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thezedwards Myles_Younger jaredrileysmith eric_seufert Google's IP blindness proposal depends on either some sort of independent audited system where advertisers are willing to pay for a system that blanks IPs specifically to get access to other valuable data in exchange (and t/f justifying someone paying the cost).Permalink On twitter.com
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thezedwards Myles_Younger jaredrileysmith eric_seufert What Apple is doing is either shouldering a cost to basically host an additional layer of infrastructure between their users and the web (which is def possible!) or... something significantly more complicated?Permalink On twitter.com
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