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Any particular reason you think personalized ads are ethical? Why do you consider it ethical to track the videos people watch, the subjects they search, the web
by contravariant 5y ago
Any particular reason you think personalized ads are ethical? Why do you consider it ethical to track the videos people watch, the subjects they search, the webpages they visit, and use this to make money off them?
- mgraczyk 5y agoMy default is that a thing is ok, unless there is a good argument that it causes harm or violates some principle I believe in. But I can paint a more specific picture. I don't think any of that tracking harms the user, and on the contrary it makes ads and products better. Unlike Google and most of the world, I also don't believe the data "belongs" to the user. If you go to a website, the website owner should be allowed to tell anyone that you went there. I believe this should be protected speech, just as it would be protected speech if I saw you walk into my physical store and I sold that information to a third party. I believe this because I think the world would be worse without personalized ads, and because banning it violates my moral principles regarding speech.
- oakpond 5y agoIf someone created a platform that buys every available bit of data from Google about you in real-time and visualized that on a website in real-time, would you be OK with that? Suppose you would be OK with that, do you believe that Google should pay you for collecting that data?