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The 'you're the product' is a legitimate argument, but this argument makes sense only if you are aware of the phenomenon.When you think at the scale of Chrome/F
by sebow 5y ago
The 'you're the product' is a legitimate argument, but this argument makes sense only if you are aware of the phenomenon.When you think at the scale of Chrome/Firefox, it doesn't.The reason is simple: the average user is not aware of updates and changes (at all), especially those related to privacy and data.(Yes, despite the "transparency" commitments of Google/etc).Most people will still only see that the new firefox version introduced a new color theme or something equivalently useless.
So kind of, yes, these are against the user's will.Now my proposed solution is straight-out stop using them, but since 95%+ of people can't do that, there's no simple solution.(besides the simplest most effective one)