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> And Amazon / eBay / Twitter / Facebook brand identity would be worth so very much less. Sounds great!
by notpachet 5y ago
> And Amazon / eBay / Twitter / Facebook brand identity would be worth so very much less.
Sounds great!
- zdragnar 5y agoSure, if you had a magical fiat wand to make it happen, go for it. The reality is, it won't happen, because average consumers don't care and the big producers and suppliers don't benefit from it at all- quite the opposite. The apocryphal lessons of the betamax vs vhs wars seem to never be learned- no matter how elegant or technically superior something is, it is the "whole product" that matters.
- notpachet 5y agoI don't see this as a market adoption problem; I see it as a regulation problem. This is why we have governments: to enact legislation that requires companies to not run roughshod over the public interest. Regulation is the magical fiat wand. I know that HN's views of GDPR are all over the place, but the reality is that it is possible to enact meaningful legislation to restrict the powers of tech companies, and magnify the power of the end user. You could make the same argument that the average user doesn't care about the data protection measures that GDPR provides. And the corporate interests definitely chafe at those requirements today.