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This is utopian. I want this but don't believe this is possible. Perhaps they might agree to stop tracking a portion of users who opt out but forcing them to s
by qwerty456127 5y ago
This is utopian. I want this but don't believe this is possible.
Perhaps they might agree to stop tracking a portion of users who opt out but forcing them to stop tracking anybody is unlikely to succeed, and even if it succeeds they will just track everybody secretly. I also am not confident in total elimination of tracking being a good idea from the economical point of view - many small businesses rely on precise targeting today.
- pieno 5y agoWhat a dystopian world we live in when people/companies can just plainly and publicly say that they don’t agree and won’t comply with a binding law with supervision mechanisms and penalties, and still have the general public believe that there’s nothing we can do about it... And mind you: we’re not (just) talking about the top-5 tech companies and 0.01% here. This attitude is shares by almost every other company out there, and I have a feeling (based on anecdata) that the issue is even worse in smaller companies who think they don’t have to comply because they’re small or because they’re a startup or because they just need to “move fast and break things”… and we seem to accept that…
- xg15 5y ago> many small businesses rely on precise targeting today. And many businesses relied on CFCs as coolants before they got forbidden. they found a solution. Regulation can also be a source of innovation if it forces businesses to think of alternative, less harmful ways to solve a problem.