v130 · miscellaneous

Protected Audience Bidding & Auction Services

The Protected Audience API (formerly known as FLEDGE) is a Privacy Sandbox proposal to serve remarketing and custom audience use cases, designed so third parties cannot track user browsing behavior across sites. This feature, Protected Audience Bidding & Auction Services, outlines a way to allow Protected Audience computation to take place on cloud servers i

concepts

  1. Bidding & Auction Services pipeline

    Step-by-step walkthrough of the B&A flow: getInterestGroupAdAuctionData, seller request, TEE auction, runAdAuction with the server response.

  2. Device vs server latency

    Latency calculator built from the explainer's cost model. Dial buyer count, RTT, and device CPU; see the device-side path's per-bid cost grow linearly while the B&A path holds steady at one round-trip plus TEE-side parallelism.

  3. Auction tracer (8-step ladder)

    Click through the eight-message exchange between browser, SSP, seller TEE, bidder TEEs, and the K/V trusted servers. Each step explains who can read what, shows the encrypted envelope contents, and filters by actor so you can audit one party's view in isolation.

  4. Bid request probe

    Configure up to 4 DSP buyers, call navigator.getInterestGroupAdAuctionData(), and POST the encrypted request to the local seller endpoint without inventing a winning bid.

why it shipped

The Protected Audience API (formerly known as FLEDGE) is a Privacy Sandbox proposal to serve remarketing and custom audience use cases, designed so third parties cannot track user browsing behavior across sites. This feature, Protected Audience Bidding & Auction Services, outlines a way to allow Protected Audience computation to take place on cloud servers i

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