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But he’s not allowed to withdraw the service if customers don’t agree. Therefore his business model, which was an exchange (not even taking users’ data, only di
by laurent92 6y ago
But he’s not allowed to withdraw the service if customers don’t agree. Therefore his business model, which was an exchange (not even taking users’ data, only displaying relevant ads), is required to become a donation from him to a good share of his customers, if he wants to keep the other ones who agree to advertising tracking.
- madeofpalk 6y agoWho is "he"? I lost who we are talking about here...
- snowwrestler 6y agoThe goal is to shift the ad industry away from intrusive tracking, not to ban ads as a business model. The answer will be to show ads that are made relevant using signals other than collecting personal data. I get that the digital ad industry is not set up well to do that now, but the idea is to force them to adapt. They will have to eventually if major applications of personal data are closed to them by changes like Apple’s.
- threeseed 6y agoAnd also moving to everything being explicit. Many of us are actually okay with first-party data collection. But it is ridiculous how user data is being packaged and sold to so many faceless third parties whose you don't know and whose policies are not clear.
- simonh 6y agoDisplaying relevant ads requires taking users’ data, and there’s no way to know if that data is also used for other purposes, which it almost always is. Yes this makes some business models harder.
- maccard 6y agoIt doesn't really - you can display ads for puzzle games in a puzzle game, or ads for outdoor equipment in a hiking focused all, allcwithout any tracking whatsoever.