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Thought experiment: What if we just continue like we did in the last two decades? Would there be any real harm if we simply returned to the pre "cookie banner
by FreeHugs 5y ago
Thought experiment:
What if we just continue like we did in the last two decades?
Would there be any real harm if we simply returned to the pre "cookie banner world" of the internet?
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoWhy do you think there is so much outrage on the internet these days ? It's a consequence of 2 decades of optimizing for engagement, because they make money not by providing a product people pay once and use at their will, but a product that gets a minuscule amount of cash any time someone does something with it. And this ad based system only works if you spy a lot on people. Everything is affected by this: the vaccine opposition in the covid crisis, the presidential election... Everything.
- philjohn 5y agoI'd argue that the outrage began far before the internet, it goes back to moral panics of yesteryear, and outrage being peddled on talk radio.
- peppermint_tea 5y agothe internet is more than browsers and http, we have email, irc, sftp, torrents and lots of other cool stuff that I would hate to see centralized in the hands of a few private companies and serve to the masses with browser, mandatory https and google tag manager all in order to track people behaviors. I feel like promoting alternatives is a better idea than participating in the creation of a dystopian future for the generations to come. out of question for me to just "let it slide", we have too much to loose here
- goodpoint 5y agoEver heard of Cambridge Analytica and brexit?
- Jiejeing 5y agoI’m sorry to break it to you, but the issue is not the cookie banners but the fact that website share your personal information with thousand of entities and brokers. You do not need a cookie banner if you do not track your users beyond what is needed for the website to work.