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Advertising, and tracking user data are not inherently bad. The user must know what's being tracked, and probably more importantly, the user must be getting som
by everdrive 8y ago
Advertising, and tracking user data are not inherently bad. The user must know what's being tracked, and probably more importantly, the user must be getting something of value in exchange. Facebook is an ever-degrading skinner box, providing less and less value to users while being addictive and malicious.
Contrast this with something like Google Maps: It's a privacy nightmare too, but it's also incredibly useful.
- gbersac 8y agoInternet could not be as free as it is without advertising. Facebook and Google need to gain money so that we could use them for free.
- JohnFen 8y ago> Internet could not be as free as it is without advertising. I don't think that's true. That's true for certain things, like Facebook and Google, but those sorts of companies do not constitute "the internet".
- JohnFen 8y ago> tracking user data are not inherently bad. If that tracking is being performed on people who have not given informed consent, then it is very bad.