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> data collection needs. There are no "data collection needs" there are "data collection wants". If they asked, people would say no. To pour so much effort int
by yosamino 6y ago
> data collection needs.
There are no "data collection needs" there are "data collection wants". If they asked, people would say no. To pour so much effort into manipulating people into letting themselves be monitoring and just tracking people without their consent is straight up abusive.
They asked "Hey can I have this data about you?"
We said "We´d actually rather you didn´t."
End of discussion. This is not complicated concept. Informed consent is not a complex theory, it´s possible for a class of 2nd graders to grasp it.
I don´t need new and improved ways for this dystopian garbage to be more convenient to me.
I need it so stop.
- gtf21 6y agoThis is exactly the point I've been wondering about. What strikes me about this FLoC stuff is that we're removing a technology which was genuinely built for the user (cookies) to a technology whose SOLE purpose is tracking users. For some reason we're not properly questioning the assumption that this is remotely reasonable: why should we have tracking at all? It's as though we replaced facial recognition cameras piggy-backing on CCTV security systems with chipping every citizen and then saying "but it's just a better tracking system" rather than "is this even reasonable?"
- mk81 6y agoThis all stems from people having been trained to expect everything online to be "free".
- tareqak 6y agoI disagree because everything on antenna, cable, satellite television or radio is similarly “free” unless it is locked somehow (e.g. cable or satellite programming packages, pay-per-view television, different radio technology like SiriusXM, etc.).
- gxnxcxcx 6y agoI hold the view that, on the contrary, this all mostly stems from people having been trained to expect everything they want to do online can be turned into a "business" by itself.