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A First View of Topics API Usage in the Wild

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Among several proposals for a privacy-preserving replacement of third-party cookies, Google's new Topics API is widely discussed as a possible solution. Some scepticism still lingers on the new paradigm from researchers and control bodies; however, the industry has started deploying and testing it. This paper measures the current usage of the Topics API in the wild, discovering third parties that started enabling it, the practices they adopt and their interplay with privacy policies and consent acquisition mechanisms.

Source: ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT)

DOI: 10.1145/3680121.3697810

Authors: Alberto Verna, Nikhil Jha, Martino Trevisan, Marco Mellia

Institutions: Politecnico di Torino, University of Trieste

Language: English

Topic: Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: European Commission, NextGenerationEU

OpenAlex ID: W4404622277

FWCI: 2.626

Cites: 12

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10