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A video game installation is a conscious choice that I can make depending on whether I trust the vendor or not. Me visiting New York Times and getting 58 tracke
by koluna 6y ago
A video game installation is a conscious choice that I can make depending on whether I trust the vendor or not. Me visiting New York Times and getting 58 trackers scraping my device configuration and preferences is not a choice.
- pishpash 6y agoIt is as much a choice as installing an .exe. Treat the web browser like the OS of old, because that's exactly what browser makers think of it.
- upbeat_general 6y agoTrue in theory but good luck explaining this to my grandma/99% of internet users. People click links freely even if they shouldn’t,
- geofft 6y agoTwenty years ago they ran .exes just as freely.
- koluna 6y agoAnd? Why should we still be adapting the security and privacy model we had 20 years ago? To your analogy, 20 years ago this bit us all in the ass just as much because every EXE brought with it all sorts of toolbars and adware. I don’t want the web to become this.
- hkt 6y agoYes, and we established that was an awful idea..
- maccard 6y ago20 years ago laptop weight was measured in pounds, clock speeds we're in MHz, storage was in single GB ranges, and battery life was a quarter of what it is today. Dial up was common, there was no youtube or spotify. Let's not hold ourselves to the standards of 3 generations ago of technology
- colechristensen 6y agoAnd how do i get back to a hypertext reader?
- koluna 6y agoIt is not. I can open someone’s blog without knowing what trackers they have. A site has inherently a different trust boundary than an executable, and it should stay that way.
- maccard 6y agoNot only that, you can vet someone's blog, decide you are ok with the trackers and revisit 24 hours later only to find that they've changed since you last visited.