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Countless articles and media pieces over the years on the plethora of unethical ways our data gets sold, resold and abused and still you ask what's wrong...

• dustymcp 5y ago
  Yet No alternative have arrived to ads, people are used to free software how do you circumvent these things ?
  • MauranKilom 5y ago
    Who said this ruling forbids ads? It only forbids user tracking (actually not even that - it just requires meaningful consent to be obtained before tracking users).
  • akireu 5y ago
    Ads aren't the problem, the surveillance is. That you can't have the former without the latter is a myth FB and Google peddle to justify their existence. They don't even need your data all that much - the duopoly the myth perpetuates is what matters. There's no conclusive proof that personalized ads are more efficient than old banner networks, much less that FB's or Google's services are worth the huge share of profits they take as intermediaries.
  • dmitriid 5y ago
    It amazes me how people--even technical people--have been tricked into believing that ads require pervasive tracking. Ads have been around for as long as there has been trade. So, thousands of years. Pervasive tracking has been around for less than thirty years. But yeah, "how in the world will we ever be able to show ads to people and pay for software?"