Navigation-based Tracking Mitigations

Work in this repository analyzes the problem of navigation-based cross-site tracking and seeks to change browser behavior in order to prevent it. See the Navigational-Tracking Mitigations specification for more details.

The bounce tracking mitigations explainer outlines a proposal for aligning browsers on a common mitigation for bounce tracking.

This is a Work Item of the Privacy Community Group. It originated out of proposal 6 of the Privacy Community Group, but this work focuses more broadly on all navigation-based tracking mechanisms.

Local development

The spec is written in Bikeshed and is found in index.bs. You will need to install Bikeshed to build the spec:

pipx install bikeshed

To build the spec, use the default Makefile target, and it will generate an index.html containing the spec:

Make