> "the free market will just fix everything" I think the market doesn't fix anything because there's nothing to fix in this case. > you're not being given a re

> "the free market will just fix everything" I think the market doesn't fix anything because there's nothing to fix in this case. > you're not being given a representative set of available options... What would those options be? Who decides that? For me the market does, who should do it for you? What I'm saying is simple, if there are more people who demand services that respect their privacy, then the offer of those services will arise. If, for example, we are in an abstemious society no one will demand wine, then it is foolish to try to produce wine under those circumstances. It will only be profitable to produce wine there if the preferences of that society change. >"just give up all your data, it's fiiiinnne" I don't know. It may or may not be fine, you decide for you and I decide for me. I'm not going to force you to make a decision you don't want and I hope you do the same. Anyway, it's silly to say that we can't have privacy on the Internet. My position is that we can have the services we want, privacy, security, with whatever preponderant factor we want to have, but not for free. You will pay with money, with personal data or whatever the other party accepts as payment, but you will always pay. All this discussion takes place only in contexts where there are people who think they can access all kinds of things for "free", who have the right to dispose of someone else's work, capital, time or property as they please. Whether we like it or not, the market currently tells us that, in general, access to certain services is more valuable than consumer privacy.