Our field experiment shows that choice friction dominate user preferences in online data sharing; browser-level privacy controls improve welfare 150% more than banning manipulative consent designs.
A COPPA settlement targeting YouTube led to a 13% reduction in YouTube’s made-for-kids content; demand responded by concentrating on popular channels.
A joint position paper based on our prior research findings related to privacy and data regulations.
Should companies focus on maximizing consent rates when designing their cookie banners? We show that such practice can exacerbate sample bias in certain situations, and propose a better alternative.
Why are privacy preferences contextual? This paper empirically identifies intrinsic and instrumental preferences for privacy as a way to explain privacy’s context dependence.
Cookies have been crumbling long before the hammer of Privacy Sandbox strikes. This is bad for measurement and inference, but not necessarily in the way you expect.
