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That makes about as much sense (to me) as: "Fill out this survey and you can have a candy bar" "Nope, I won't fill out the survey but I'll still take the cand
by umvi 8y ago
That makes about as much sense (to me) as:
"Fill out this survey and you can have a candy bar"
"Nope, I won't fill out the survey but I'll still take the candy bar"
- Terretta 8y agoFill out this survey, while I surreptitiously inject this GPS tracker under your skin, and you can have a candy bar. Don't mind you noting down I stopped by, or these product posters you have up, but I'd rather not have that embedded tracker, thanks. Don't track you? Already jabbed you, LOL... And so the law stepped in.
- umvi 8y agoYeah but now the law creates the opposite problem: Me: Let me serve you targeted ads and you can stream this video you want to watch, deal? You: Nope, I'm just going to stream your video without the ads, LOL Me: That's stealing my bandwidth You: Nope, the EU made it legal so it's not stealing, LOL Me: withdraws from EU
- rspeer 8y agoI cannot imagine being so enmeshed in the world of targeted advertising that I would care about this analogy.
- umvi 8y agoThe point is, it's stealing to forego the targeted ads in order to consume the content anyway. The fair thing to do would be: "I don't consent to targeted ads, so I'm clicking the back button and using an alternative" Not: "I don't consent to targeted ads, so I'm opting out of them and by the way, you get to foot the bill for whatever I decide to do next"
- craigsmansion 8y agoYou can use advertisements. You can even use targeted advertisements if you're halfway smart. What you can't use is targeted advertisement where the targeting is based on tracking. If your business model absolutely must resort to tracking users to be successful, it's probably best and easiest to withdraw from the EU market.