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> Tell people there is always price attached to services. If you don't pay for it explicitly it most likely means the company extracts it some other way -- ask

> Tell people there is always price attached to services. If you don't pay for it explicitly it most likely means the company extracts it some other way -- ask yourselves how exactly. I fully agree this is the right approach. Unfortunately, it's really REALLY hard to make a compelling case. It seems the only way people will open their eyes is if there's some kind of privacy catastrophe that's plain to see and which has clear consequences. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is as close to an example of what a privacy catastrophe looks like as I can imagine right now. Many people separated themselves from Facebook as a result. I just wonder how many more incidents like that have to occur before people get wise to surveillance capitalism. I'm not hopeful that the truth is ever going to be clear given the cacophony of non-stop disinformation campaigns (like the OP "news" article).

lmilcin 6y ago
I think everybody should be paying for online services and companies should not be allowed to provide services that are free of charge. The simple truth is that all companies are for profit or at the very least have running costs that need to be covered. As long as people expect services to be free of charge there isn't much that can be done. Companies will work hard to monetize you as a product because there isn't much else that can be done. We can always try to create more law or precedents, but companies will put their billions to exploit every single bit of information about you that can be exploited in any possible way. I believe the explicit price is needed to have healthy competition and for the companies to focus on services they render to their customers and not on the customers as a product packaged for other companies to use for some shady business.

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> Tell people there is always price attached to services. If you don't pay for it explicitly it most likely means the company extracts it some other way -- ask

by crispyambulance 6y ago

lmilcin 6y ago
I think everybody should be paying for online services and companies should not be allowed to provide services that are free of charge. The simple truth is that all companies are for profit or at the very least have running costs that need to be covered. As long as people expect services to be free of charge there isn't much that can be done. Companies will work hard to monetize you as a product because there isn't much else that can be done. We can always try to create more law or precedents, but companies will put their billions to exploit every single bit of information about you that can be exploited in any possible way. I believe the explicit price is needed to have healthy competition and for the companies to focus on services they render to their customers and not on the customers as a product packaged for other companies to use for some shady business.