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Might be easiest to think of your privacy as a currency similar to $. The real cost is 800. They can offer you $600 and 200 in privacy, or they could offer you
by karpathy 11y ago
Might be easiest to think of your privacy as a currency similar to $. The real cost is 800. They can offer you $600 and 200 in privacy, or they could offer you $800, which people would throw a fit over and not buy. This is also not entirely accurate because the raw price is a one-time purchase, while privacy is hard to upper bound and can even become more valuable later on.
Facebook operates on this extreme: it's completely "free" to use, except you have to count your privacy, which in fact turns out to be quite valuable currency. And unfortunately I think we've established several times that at least for social media or even web or apps in general that the other extreme of "pay us more of your normal$ and less of your privacy$" doesn't work well at all.
So it looks like you can't have a "monitor for your face and that's it" because human psychology.
- raverbashing 11y ago> Facebook operates on this extreme: it's completely "free" to use, except you have to count your privacy, which in fact turns out to be quite valuable currency. True, but I have a choice of what I put there (also, using an ad blocker greatly reduces the tracking they can do) One Kudos I have to give FB is that they allow you to configure what information you can send to apps that use FB for authentication
- ginko 11y agoThe problem is that they _don't_ offer me the $800 option.
- Sir_Substance 11y agoI'd pay that $800.