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Again I wonder whether all the tracking BS is necessary. Google, Facebook & Twitter aggregated a huge audience by giving away high-quality products, e.g. search
by QuadrupleA 7y ago
Again I wonder whether all the tracking BS is necessary. Google, Facebook & Twitter aggregated a huge audience by giving away high-quality products, e.g. search, gmail, maps, etc.
They could make a ton of money selling ad space whether it's privacy-invading or not (indeed, search ads did just that for many years by targeting the search term, not the personal details of the searcher).
- nexuist 7y agoI think the problem is that the market demands growth and while basic search ads did yield insane profits, we are now approaching the end of the Internet growth period where everyone who has expendable capital is also already on these platforms. Tech companies have effectively run out of people to convert into customers and thus they have to do these crazy tracking shenanigans to try to squeeze as much out of every individual as possible.