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by skylarchunk 2273 days ago
This is an interesting point. Either the government would then need businesses to disclose their "rating" (similar to movies) or businesses could opt in to show a seal (like Fairtrade bananas). The problem is, if there aren't enough (popular) sites with the seal, then the value of this declaration is lost.
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dwighttk 2273 days ago
Yeah. For many people I interact with Facebook, and to a lesser extent Google, are the internet. So they’d never see the seal unless Google put the sites in their top three results and didn’t scrape the relevant info.

Or someone posted a meme with the seal in it on Facebook.

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somethoughts 2273 days ago
For apps at least, you could add the branding seal to the Appstore metadata that you upload for your app to the Apple/Android App Store.

For websites, agreed google would have to display it or it'd have to be after the initial page load which means you'd be tracked the first time you visited the site and you'd know not to visit a second time.

Perhaps for websites, a browser add-on that checked a certified ad tracking free database registry could be used.

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somethoughts 2273 days ago
Interesting - the movie ratings is a good analogy - as far as I know the MPAA handles it[1].

Maybe an existing organization in this space such as the eff.org with name recognization could come up with a certification methodology and branding seal for websites and apps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_...

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