Cookie Monster: Efficient On-device Budgeting for Differentially-Private Ad-Measurement Systems · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2405.16719/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTCookie Monster: Efficient On-device Budgeting for Differentially-Private Ad-Measurement Systems — mentioned by strikinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971919urn:hackerpapers:mention:2405.16719:40971919Mon, 15 Jul 2024 22:15:00 GMT<p>You can&#x27;t reference Claude Shannon and information theory and then say a system to serve ads that preserves privacy can&#x27;t exist. It&#x27;s especially ironic because they use a technique called Differential Privacy to prevent any actual bits of information from being leaked to advertisers: https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozilla-ppa/#user-content-f... / https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.16719</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2405.16719/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR