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> I really wish awareness of this reached a wider audience 1) it will not happen, not even Cambridge Analytica did and Facebook plans for more "privacy" took t

> I really wish awareness of this reached a wider audience 1) it will not happen, not even Cambridge Analytica did and Facebook plans for more "privacy" took the media, Facebook did nothing or too little and now people think they are safer 2) People will not help making digital security and privacy any better, I can't explain why, but it must come from trully ethical developers Privacy must be set by default. Ad tech co. have an conflict of interest in this privacy matter and can't lead the way. Developers from ad tech will always truly believe they are doing what's better for users but they just can't for many reasons. Privacy by default is not a dream, it is not utopia, but it requires another business model. Ads will simple not allow privacy. My opinion anyway

type0 7y ago
> 2) People will not help making digital security and privacy any better The biggest majority of Web users do not even realize how this stuff works. I asked one no technical friend what he thought about Google business model, the answer surprised me: they positioned themselves as intermediary on the Web so that most traffic goes through them so that they could serve ads. That's probably not completely incorrect but what regular paps and moms don't know is that web site creators themselves agreed to this deal with the devil and their soul is now completely gone. When no-one, not even the most valuable or knowledgeable customers complain about the gazillions of tracking scripts on the page, there's no way this could get better. For regular people "Privacy" means a few setting that you could change on some conglomerate web site until they rebuild/reset the page so that you'll have to do this all over again.
- dorgo 7y ago
  >That's probably not completely incorrect Far from it: From https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-google-makes-money/ https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-google-makes-money/ : >68.3% of the total, from the advertising over the Google websites >21.2% of the total, from advertising over the Google Network Member’ websites I couldn't find a more up-to-date source, but judging from these numbers website creators are responsible for only around a fifth of google's revenue.

type0 7y ago

> 2) People will not help making digital security and privacy any better The biggest majority of Web users do not even realize how this stuff works. I asked one no technical friend what he thought about Google business model, the answer surprised me: they positioned themselves as intermediary on the Web so that most traffic goes through them so that they could serve ads. That's probably not completely incorrect but what regular paps and moms don't know is that web site creators themselves agreed to this deal with the devil and their soul is now completely gone. When no-one, not even the most valuable or knowledgeable customers complain about the gazillions of tracking scripts on the page, there's no way this could get better. For regular people "Privacy" means a few setting that you could change on some conglomerate web site until they rebuild/reset the page so that you'll have to do this all over again.

dorgo 7y ago
>That's probably not completely incorrect Far from it: From https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-google-makes-money/ https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-google-makes-money/ : >68.3% of the total, from the advertising over the Google websites >21.2% of the total, from advertising over the Google Network Member’ websites I couldn't find a more up-to-date source, but judging from these numbers website creators are responsible for only around a fifth of google's revenue.