Jonathan Foote
foote.bsky.social
Jonathan Foote
@foote.bsky.social
echo "I still will never understand" | awk '{print $1 " " $3 " " $5;}'
January 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
That's all! Notes and technical details that led to these conclusions here: foote.pub/2024/12/30/p...
Apple Private Access Tokens (PATs) and Google Private State Token (PST) update
Technical notes on the public ecosystem around IETF PrivacyPass, Apple PATs and Google PSTs
foote.pub
January 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Google doesn't provide any bot signal with PSTs, and their third-party cookie deprecation stalled due to EU pushback, so PSTs may be slower to gain real traction
January 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Google PSTs ecosystem is more open than Apple's, which is nice. You can see the list of token issuers (and sign up to be one) via github: github.com/GoogleChrome...
January 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Safari doesn't allow third party cookies, and Apple hides your IP via Private Relay, so PATs aren't going away anytime soon. I'd expect usage to grow.
January 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Privacy tech is nice, but the main reason PATs are valuable to sites is because they are a signal from Apple that the web client isn't a bot
January 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM