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I'd bet if you surveyed Europeans they wouldn't be more aware of how data is being used pre vs. post GDPR. When I watch my non-technical friends use websites,
by zachlatta 8y ago
I'd bet if you surveyed Europeans they wouldn't be more aware of how data is being used pre vs. post GDPR.
When I watch my non-technical friends use websites, they dismiss the prompts without reading or understanding them.
- Avamander 8y ago> When I watch my non-technical friends use websites, they dismiss the prompts without reading or understanding them. That's a problem in general in IT. The nice solution would be websites respecting DNT option in browsers and every browser asking if they want to be tracked on the web or not. Or well, we could just purge 3rd party cookies from existence for starters.
- zachlatta 8y agoUnrealistic. Economics drive the internet and ignoring DNT / having 3rd party cookies is vital to monetization.
- jlarocco 8y agoI disagree. Economics may drive everything, but there's more to life than money, and it shouldn't stop us from creating laws that protect citizens and increase public good. Before we created the relevant laws, economics also drove companies to hire children, dump trash into rivers, ignore safety, etc. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say tracking cookies and advertising malware are the pollution of the internet. Even as a tech person, I'm skeptical ad-based services are a net win for consumers. It wouldn't be the end of the world, IMO, if tracking cookies and shady marketing practices were illegal and companies had to use traditional sales tactics online.