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by lifestyleguru 301 days ago
10 years ago I was reluctant to use smartphone browser, because it's obvious everything is tracked and profiled as on mobile there was no ad blocker, no possibility to edit hosts file. Now I just use mobile browser for everything without second thought. Give it 3-5 years.
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tygra 301 days ago
I don't think we're comparing apples to apples here. Using a mobile browser certainly opened the door to more tracking, but at the end of the day it was mostly about ads and profiling. With AI, the scale is very different. These systems can learn far more about you from the questions you ask and the data you provide. That makes privacy and data protection a much bigger concern than ever before.
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lifestyleguru 301 days ago
How do you know data brokers and ad companies have not been using AI already for years now?
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tygra 301 days ago
Good point.

But I'm not sure that in 3-5 years people will just give their sensitive financial, medical, or legal data to cloud AI providers without a second thought.

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