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The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main funding models: Paywalls. You pay with your money. Ads. You pay with your attention. I guess Th
by blakesterz 5y ago
The question is, what is the alternative? I see two main
funding models:
Paywalls. You pay with your money.
Ads. You pay with your attention.
I guess That question seems good, but with ads, I don't feel like I'm paying with my attention, I'm paying with my personal data. I'm paying by sharing what I'm doing with a seemingly infinite number of companies who turn around and buy and sell all that data and build profiles on me that are then bought or sold. I'm paying with my privacy, not my attention.
- jefftk 5y agoYou might be interested in the second half of the post, starting with "But the biggest issue I see people raising is the privacy impact of targeted ads..."? Browsers are getting rid of third-party cookies, and Safari, Edge, and Chrome all have proposals for how ads can do many of the same things they do today without cross-site tracking.
- lupire 5y agoWill be be getting a refund of all the personal data collected in the past?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y agoI'd rather get a nickel for every bit of data that I did not give explicitly consent to be collected, and a nickel for anytime that bits cross referenced, sold, shared, lost, transferred, or otherwise handled in a way that was not explicitly defined in the eula..
- amalcon 5y agoIt's also important to realize that with ads, you also pay with your money, when you later buy some product (whether due to the ad or not). Your attention and personal data are only valuable in this context as a way to access your money. The amount of money you pay with is unclear and varies from person to person, but you still do pay.