<div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Ed Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edilee@mozilla.com" target="_blank">edilee@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
For example, we could send 100 potential links data (urls, titles,<br>
images as data URIs) for Directory Tiles and have Firefox pick out the<br>
most relevant/personalized ones to show the user. This doesn't reveal<br>
personal user data to the server hosting this data, but this impacts<br>
the client in terms of increased bandwidth and disk space usage.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wonder whether existing works on privately serving ads to users (where users' computers do the ad filtering) might help here?<br>
<br></div><div>There is Privad: <a href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/nsdi11/tech/full_papers/Guha.pdf">https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/nsdi11/tech/full_papers/Guha.pdf</a><br></div><div>And there's Adnostic: <a href="https://crypto.stanford.edu/adnostic/">https://crypto.stanford.edu/adnostic/</a><br>
<br></div><div>I'm not affiliated with either one of them, but I could read them to see what applies here. <br></div></div></div></div>