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why would paywalls give us privacy? if anything they can track us even more
by markyc 11y ago
why would paywalls give us privacy? if anything they can track us even more
- untothebreach 11y agoThis is very true. I think the distinction is consent, and choosing who you give up privacy for. When I visit a web page, I don't know whether the page is going to track me or not. By the time I find out, it is too late, my visit has already been recorded. When I give a publisher/content-creator/whatever money, I am agreeing to enter into a transaction with them, and I expect that they will have a record of that transaction.
- markyc 11y agomakes sense I wonder if this whole "front-end" blocking will just push things to the back-end. How long until websites start sharing back-end tracking data between themselves?
- untothebreach 11y agoI have heard anecdotal stories about companies being asked to put reverse proxies on their networks in order to make the ads "first-party." Seems like that will be the next step in the arms race.
- amelius 11y agoWell, I guess we will have anonymous payment systems for that. Bitcoin (although very trackable) is already a start in the right direction.