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What a nonsense apologetic approach. Define "the right thing"? Blocking tracking by default sounds like the "right thing" to me. I'm not sure how "being a good
by LeoNatan25 9y ago
What a nonsense apologetic approach. Define "the right thing"? Blocking tracking by default sounds like the "right thing" to me. I'm not sure how "being a good citizen on the internet" became synonymous with "bending over to advertising moguls" or "thinking about the poor starving blogger who must partake in that advertisement tracking ad tech nonsense and blocking that is taking food from his kids".
Advertising and tracking blocking has become a gatekeeper of democracy on the internet these days. Unfortunately, with the idiotic political direction in USA (and USSC), I wouldn't be surprised if politicians are not bribed to introduce legislation against blocking advertisement ("it infringes on first amendment of Coca Cola!"), followed swiftly by "America's interests" - much of Europe.
- lordlimecat 9y ago"Blocking ads" is typically justified because the data is being sent to your computer, which is then rejecting parts of the data. The other side of this coin is that when you voluntarily send data to the server, what they do with it is generally their business (complying with local laws etc). If you want to "block tracking" you should prevent your computer from sending trackable data to the server. Complaining that theyre keeping data about you is tilting at windmills: good luck preventing it.