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There is a subtlety involved: - people care if other people know what they have read - people care much less if a machine knows what they have read
by fraserharris 11y ago
There is a subtlety involved:
- people care if other people know what they have read
- people care much less if a machine knows what they have read
- noobermin 11y agoI think this sums up the attitude of most of those confounded young'un Millennials, myself included. I like the idea that Youtube remembers the videos I've watched so that it rec's others, it's a useful feature of the site. The fact that someone else, a person, could see that information, that is upsetting. It's probably difficult to have one without the other, however.
- vectorjohn 11y agoThis has nothing to do with the OP / what library books were read. The library certainly does know what you read. Likewise, Google and even real people at Google may know what you watched. But that's not surprising. It's to be expected. The real comparison is if Google gave that information, de-anonymized, to advertisers. Then there would be an issue.
- mordocai 11y agoDifficult but not impossible. Client side encryption on such data can fix this, but can be difficult to implement in a good way that is transparent to users. You can even still submit/keep anonymized information about videos viewed. In almost every current business case it probably isn't worth it to bother.