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Improving Web Advertising

September 14, 2022

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Improving Web Advertising Goals:

Meet user expectations of the Web

  • Stop individually-identified cross-site / web-wide tracking
    • Restrict third-party cookies
    • Restrict fingerprinting
    • Permit user choice

  • Provide monetization opportunities that support the open web
    • Measurement of impressions, conversions, and attribution
    • Aggregate reporting APIs
    • Non-tracking-based targeting and associated measurement/reporting
    • Optimization of advertising budget
    • Fraud-resistance

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History and Progress

  • 2017 Improving Web Advertising Business Group
    • Mapping the ecosystem and shared needs (GitHub repo)
    • Use cases
    • Proposals (dashboard)
    • Reporting on tests and trials
  • 2020 WICG incubation; Privacy Community Group incubation
  • 2021 Private Advertising Technology CG; Federated Identity CG; Anti-Fraud CG incubation
  • 2022 Private Advertising Technology Working Group proposed
    • Private measurement

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Improving Web Advertising

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