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Your analogies don't hold up. Buying water filters doesn't do anything to the polluting party. They can just keep polluting. On the other hand, using a VPN ma
by gregschlom 10y ago
Your analogies don't hold up.
Buying water filters doesn't do anything to the polluting party. They can just keep polluting.
On the other hand, using a VPN makes your data worthless. It allows you to directly hit back at the companies trying to monetize your data. It's entirely different that just avoiding the problem.
- heurist 10y agoOnly techies will be setting up VPNs. What about the vast majority of everyone else who don't understand what is happening when they connect to the internet?
- saint_fiasco 10y agoConsidering the whole point of selling user data is that advertisers want to profile you, using a VPN just lets the ISPs tell the advertisers "this guy is a techie, send him ads for computer stuff".
- wvenable 10y agoUltimately you're limiting your own connection. How exactly is the entire country going to use VPNs and get reasonable performance? It's not a long term solution.
- mundo 10y agoI didn't say that privacy and pollution were similar in any way except that the line of reasoning presented in the article would apply to regulations policing both of them (and many others, and is hence over-broad).