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> mandatory opt-in What does this mean? To me, "mandatory" implies compulsory, while "opt-in" implies optional, i.e. not compulsory.
by cabalamat 5y ago
> mandatory opt-in
What does this mean? To me, "mandatory" implies compulsory, while "opt-in" implies optional, i.e. not compulsory.
- johnchristopher 5y agoMea culpa. I meant mandatory as in "there MUST be an opt-in mechanism for users to agree to sharing their metadata". So the privacy conscious crowd can still read RSS items and share them without automatically sharing metadata. Without a way for authors/producers/adnetwork to extract values from the RSS format there's no incentives for them to use it. So give them what they want if we want. Big words for what is just UTM added to the specs. I am saying this tongue in cheek because I doubt people would opt-in if there's nothing for them in it. They opt-in for facebook and google because they get gmail/googlesearch/facebookfeed but with RSS they already have everything they want. RSS is hard to monetize without putting it behind a paywall.