RFC: Proposal for estimating unique Julia clients without tracking

[Mason]

@foobar_lv2

You’re thinking too small.

If I want reader statistics for my blog, then your proposal is a good way to do this. There is a not insignificant population who (A) wants statistics on resource-using clients, aka readers, and (B) hates cookie-banners, and (C) cares about their user’s privacy, and (D) also cares about the general politics of user privacy.

That would require a small javascript implementation of the client-side protocol, putting the key-material (i.e. the user’s statistical-tracking-identity) into localStorage.

In a perfect world, the necessary machinery would be part of web-browsers, such that users don’t need to trust the javascript library (this won’t ever happen).

Wow, I didn’t think of this. That could actually be quite impactful.