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by 10amxn10
1500 days ago
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Nope. Most of the services you use are supported by advertising, including this very site. Thankfully these out of touch, delusional opinions are a minority. The objective is to reduce the need for advertising, whenever possible (most of the time, it's not). |
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Advertising (static banners, in-house analytics by different companies) is fine but tracking the entire human population across the entire web and aggregating the data is not. Things might seem stable right now, but do you really trust corporations and governments to keep that data safe in perpetuity and to never use it for nefarious purposes?
To give you an example, right now you have the US on backwards path of banning abortions, how would you feel about the government using browsing history and analytics collected by Google and other corporations to track down women who are seeking or thinking about an abortion? Regimes and laws change, data stays forever.
> Thankfully these out of touch, delusional opinions are a minority.
Considering the progress we're making with EU regulations such as GDPR, you're certainly wrong. People are starting to become more informed with every passing year and are starting to pay more attention. Industry practices are also slowly changing to make it easier to opt-out of intrusive tracking, which is a net win even for those who don't pay much attention to their privacy posture.
We're going in the right direction.