Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tomaszs 1915 days ago
Personally I think all efforts to protect online privacy and stop tracking are wrong. But not in an obvious way. It sees right at first. But the truth it is impossible in the long run to keep privacy and not be tracked on the internet.

But the effort is to fight tracking and protect privacy at all cost. Even if this destroys foundations of the internet.

Moreover it gives the false belief that clicking NO will protect you from tracking, that companies protect your data.

But it is not a true belief. People should be aware that every password and everything transmitted through the internet can be tracked and may become public one day. And act accordingly.

It is just like data protection. You can have firewalls, antivirus and so on. But what you always really want to have is a backup.

The same goes for privacy and tracking. You can use some measures to protect, but you should act as you are tracked and everything can become public one day.

But such laws ensure people they don't need to act in such a way, what makes them less safe in the end run, rendering these laws to making people surprisingly less safe contrary to the intention of law makers.