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>> The trend has been clear for the past decade, and it has been going in the wrong direction, at increasing speeds. > Tools to block tracking have gotten bett

by 394549 8y ago

>> The trend has been clear for the past decade, and it has been going in the wrong direction, at increasing speeds. > Tools to block tracking have gotten better. Spyware is more difficult to spread, etc. I'm not convinced it's going the wrong direction "at increasing speeds". Do you have any empirical evidence of this or is it just based on perception? To make an analogy, what you're saying is similar to saying "I'm not convinced violent crime is going in the wrong direction, because people many people are regularly wearing better bullet-proof vests." Better tools to block tracking is part of a trend going in the wrong direction: an arms race between trackers and anti-tracking blockers. If things were going in the right direction, we wouldn't need better blockers, since the tracking companies would have taken the hint, and either become opt in or respect simple measures like DNT headers.

pathseeker 8y ago
>To make an analogy, what you're saying is similar to saying "I'm not convinced violent crime is going in the wrong direction, because people many people are regularly wearing better bullet-proof vests." That analogy only makes sense if the bullet-proof vest prevents violent crime entirely. Someone shooting you when you wear a bullet proof vest is still a violent crime so I'm not sure what point you are getting at. >Better tools to block tracking is part of a trend going in the wrong direction: an arms race between trackers and anti-tracking blockers. If things were going in the right direction, we wouldn't need better blockers, since the tracking companies would have taken the hint, and either become opt in or respect simple measures like DNT headers. Solutions that depend on the goodwill of participants don't work on the Internet. The only people they impact are the ones that want to play by the rules. You know it's illegal to take people's money out of banks, yet for some reason banks still use encryption. Don't you wonder why?

by 394549 8y ago

pathseeker 8y ago

>To make an analogy, what you're saying is similar to saying "I'm not convinced violent crime is going in the wrong direction, because people many people are regularly wearing better bullet-proof vests." That analogy only makes sense if the bullet-proof vest prevents violent crime entirely. Someone shooting you when you wear a bullet proof vest is still a violent crime so I'm not sure what point you are getting at. >Better tools to block tracking is part of a trend going in the wrong direction: an arms race between trackers and anti-tracking blockers. If things were going in the right direction, we wouldn't need better blockers, since the tracking companies would have taken the hint, and either become opt in or respect simple measures like DNT headers. Solutions that depend on the goodwill of participants don't work on the Internet. The only people they impact are the ones that want to play by the rules. You know it's illegal to take people's money out of banks, yet for some reason banks still use encryption. Don't you wonder why?