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Wow. We've been talking the same circles of conversation around privacy for ages. That email could have been written yesterday. Wish more visibility cookie UI

• TeMPOraL 7y ago
  Holy shit. Indeed it could. I wouldn't be surprised if I saw this text as a HN comment in 2020. My favourite pieces: > But there is a compelling argument that compensation models based on clickthroughs or more are flawed because it encourages the content developer to focus exclusively on pushing people through the ad, rather than actually providing useful content. I'm sure many content sites would refuse to partake in this. Yet here we are. I guess it was hard to predict, 23 years ago, just how insanely proftable this business model will become. >> The bottom line is that WWW advertising is based on a business model which didn't even exist a couple of years ago. It is based on leveraging technology which is new and evolving. I am confident that it will evolve in response to improvements to the technology.. > The business model of sponsored content has been around forever. So have these privacy issues (...) Looking to technology for a solution to the privacy problems is as misguided as blaming technology for causing them. The kind of nonsense Brian replied to here, that this business model is new and innovative, and thus somehow worth exploring... I swear I see these kind of arguments regularly even today.
• Asooka 7y ago
  This is why older computer scientists get jaded. It's the same problems again and again, which you foresee and try to make sure don't happen, but you can't make the world do the right thing. So you say your warning, people laugh at the "paranoid nerd" and give up their privacy for a handful of cents.