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The analogy to front doors and keys is much more fair than you give it credit for. Do you walk around the neighborhood trying doorknobs to see if they're open?
by smogcutter 9y ago
The analogy to front doors and keys is much more fair than you give it credit for. Do you walk around the neighborhood trying doorknobs to see if they're open? So don't try to exploit a site uninvited.
- gerdesj 9y agoIt was just that: an analogy, and a bad one. In the physical world you don't have Google knocking on the door and taking copies of your photo albums and the contents of your address books, filing cabinets and in return making you look at adverts. You can of course deploy a baseball bat (uBlock etc) for some small, conciliatory, relief at the ads but your data is no longer yours. Its not even the commons, to benefit us all. Your data is simply part of a bloody great marketing machine. Quite an efficient one. Is https://www.shodan.io/ https://www.shodan.io/ criminal? They twiddle the doorknobs in everyone's neighbourhood but at least they tell you what they are up to.