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I agree, people are all to quick today to say, hey I don't like what that company is doing! Lets write laws to force them to change! It's like people forgot tha

by bballer 10y ago

I agree, people are all to quick today to say, hey I don't like what that company is doing! Lets write laws to force them to change! It's like people forgot that the ultimate form of voting is with your dollars and patronage/use (even if its free). If you don't like what a company is doing, why are you supporting them by using their product? I know this doesn't work for some monopolies, but Microsoft is far from a monopoly, use Linux or OS X. Show them how much you are dissatisfied with their approaches by abandoning their product suites.

tunap 10y ago
The problem lies with when the malicious(IMO) practices become ubiquitous AND profitable it becomes the norm. Any informed user would question thee practices IF THEY WERE INFORMED. MS has a monopoly, through intent & ubiquity, on business class software, gaming & new computer sales(w/ OSX it is duopoly). Sure there are options for the technical folks, for everyone else it's spyware.
TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
Because we actually do want to use Microsoft products, or Apple, or Google, or Facebook. If we don't enact laws then jumping boats only leads to the next popular thing being careless with our privacy. I want to be certain that regardless of what software I'm using the people who developed that software have a common concern for the protection of privacy. When enough people have a common concern we usually enact those concerns in laws because it's the minimum we expect from civil participants in society.
- bballer 10y ago
  Alright, I concede, there should be laws surrounding principles of basic privacy in which the use of opt-out features must be converted to opt-in and cannot be masked around dark pattern UIs, and any remote communication that includes personal data must be clearly stated in both its execution and intent. But saying you want to use Facebook is like saying you want to get cancer.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
    I thoroughly agree with you regarding Facebook. Putting that in with the others was ludicrous. Personally, I haven't been on Facebook for over a year and have no intentions of ever using it again.
- anonbanker 10y ago
  I'm no fan of facebook (Deleted my account in 2007), but they were better about privacy than MySpace (especially under News Corporation), which they replaced. If this trend continues, the company that replaces facebook will have much better respect of privacy than those that came before it.

by bballer 10y ago

tunap 10y ago

The problem lies with when the malicious(IMO) practices become ubiquitous AND profitable it becomes the norm. Any informed user would question thee practices IF THEY WERE INFORMED. MS has a monopoly, through intent & ubiquity, on business class software, gaming & new computer sales(w/ OSX it is duopoly). Sure there are options for the technical folks, for everyone else it's spyware.

TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago

Because we actually do want to use Microsoft products, or Apple, or Google, or Facebook. If we don't enact laws then jumping boats only leads to the next popular thing being careless with our privacy. I want to be certain that regardless of what software I'm using the people who developed that software have a common concern for the protection of privacy. When enough people have a common concern we usually enact those concerns in laws because it's the minimum we expect from civil participants in society.

bballer 10y ago
Alright, I concede, there should be laws surrounding principles of basic privacy in which the use of opt-out features must be converted to opt-in and cannot be masked around dark pattern UIs, and any remote communication that includes personal data must be clearly stated in both its execution and intent. But saying you want to use Facebook is like saying you want to get cancer.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
  I thoroughly agree with you regarding Facebook. Putting that in with the others was ludicrous. Personally, I haven't been on Facebook for over a year and have no intentions of ever using it again.
anonbanker 10y ago
I'm no fan of facebook (Deleted my account in 2007), but they were better about privacy than MySpace (especially under News Corporation), which they replaced. If this trend continues, the company that replaces facebook will have much better respect of privacy than those that came before it.