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Truly respecting DNT would undermine Google's core business and the cash cow that is AdWords, by reducing the amount and / or quality of user activity data fed
by jaytaylor 8y ago
Truly respecting DNT would undermine Google's core business and the cash cow that is AdWords, by reducing the amount and / or quality of user activity data fed into the platform.
Such a change goes too much against the Alphabet Corporation's own self-interest and well-being for it to be voluntarily offered.
As with many things in Western Civilization, it traces back to capitalism and the unfortunate incentives it can encourage.
- seanhunter 8y ago100% right. They don't respect do not track because they don't believe they have to, it's in their interests not to, and they don't behave according to an ethical framework that would lead them to do things that contradict their direct short-term interests.
- anticensor 8y agoIn this case, respecting DNT also contradict user's short term desires as it leads to longer manual search on retrieved results.
- justtopost 8y agoIf the user desires to be tracked, they dont set the flag. You can't reframe a 'no' into 'but they clearly were asking for it'. Thats pretty messed up.