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> The entire premise of free exchange is that I give you my services in exchange for something of value of yours. Not if the thing I value is my personal data.
by loup-vaillant 7y ago
> The entire premise of free exchange is that I give you my services in exchange for something of value of yours.
Not if the thing I value is my personal data. Because I, as a typical short sighted consumer, will consistently underestimate the value of my data, as well as how my data affects those around me (extreme case: my data is my social graph, which you can use to reconstruct the social graph of my acquaintances).
If I don't know the actual value of what I am giving up, I am naturally going to get swindled.
- aetherson 7y agoYou used the first person pronoun a lot there. Do you yourself actually feel that you are short-sighted and that you consistently underestimate the value of your data? Or are you putting yourself in the place of a hypothetical other person?
- loup-vaillant 7y agoHypothetical. The post I replied to used "I" and "you", so I used "you" and "I". That said, I genuinely don't know how much my data is worth…
- aetherson 7y agoI ask because people are often very quick to suppose that they are part of the educated elite but other people need them to protect them from their own bad choices. Do you, for example, not use Google because you are concerned they are getting too good a deal from you? Duck Duck Go exists.
- loup-vaillant 7y agoI use DuckDuckGo, and only fairly rarely fall back to Google. My Gmail account is dormant, I set up my own mail server. But I still have an Android phone…