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Social cooling [0] also offers a different perspective that can be helpful with the broader public. At least it did very well here [1]. [0] https://www.socialc

• danpalmer 5y ago
  Thanks, this looks really good. It lays out the problem much more. Saying things like "Apple tracks you" isn't really useful because a) everything tracks you, and b) Apple are probably not using it to build a profile and that's the bad bit. Just to use one example. I like that this builds the intuition and critical thinking about tracking and profiling and its impacts, rather than making specific claims.
  • mandmandam 5y ago
    Though I take your point, poster design doesn't allow (or aim for) a huge amount of nuance. And I'd guess that Apple was likely chosen as the "tracks you" because they push their privacy angle, despite not quite living up to it. It makes sense in that way to target them - if they're widely considered as better than alternatives, what does that say about the alternatives?
    • danpalmer 5y ago
      As I said, I'm not sure of a solution to the nuance, but I do think each of these is a little irresponsible in its own way. To use the Apple example – you're right they don't quite live up to their privacy marketing (because it's marketing!), but if we teach people that Apple are bad at privacy the answer is that they won't value the privacy angle and will buy cheap Huawei phones, which is about the worst possible outcome. The reality is that Apple are ~90% good at privacy, and most people can probably trust them more than anyone else on the market.