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Because I'm not naive. The purpose of business is to manipulate and monetize me. Wring every cent from me that they can. I don't mind, this is called capitalism
by phobosdeimos 8y ago
Because I'm not naive. The purpose of business is to manipulate and monetize me. Wring every cent from me that they can. I don't mind, this is called capitalism. But I don't want to be a powerless victim. I have my own interests after all.
- darawk 8y agoYou're a 'powerless victim' here? It seems to me that you could just not use these services. You could use alternative services. But you don't want to, and apparently not wanting to is worth more to you than your privacy.
- Rjevski 8y agoThe problem with not using the services is that stalking becomes ubiquitous. You can choose to not use Facebook, but when every single company starts stalking you (like your mobile carrier) you no longer have a way out. This is why we need regulations to make sure this doesn’t spread even more.
- darawk 8y agoThat would be true. Except that if people cared enough about it, it would be a competitive advantage to not do this. In some contexts, people do care, for instance. Companies like DuckDuckGo and Apple make privacy a selling point. Telecoms are a bit of a special case, since they're a regulated monopoly. I'm all in favor of them being forced to respect privacy, since consumers don't have choice there. But in the case of internet giants like Google/FB, i'm much less on board.