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>Or, it's like watching you add stuff to your shopping cart, walk around the store, then remove some items, pick different items... and finally walk to the self
by Nicksil 4y ago
>Or, it's like watching you add stuff to your shopping cart, walk around the store, then remove some items, pick different items... and finally walk to the self checkout, scan and buy the goods.
It's their property.
A website (or app or whatever) is downloaded to my machine and then executed. So all this stuff going on behind the scenes is doing so from my property, using my resources.
- fragmede 4y agoWebsites are absolutely someone's intellectual property. Just because I've watched a Disney movie on my phone doesn't mean I'm allowed to download Disney movies from Disney+ and start my own competing service.
- Nicksil 4y ago>Websites are absolutely someone's intellectual property. Just because I've watched a Disney movie on my phone doesn't mean I'm allowed to download Disney movies from Disney+ and start my own competing service. I wasn't referencing intellectual property. Re-phrased: "It's their premises."
- GekkePrutser 4y agoEven that isn't the same. It's still being displayed and then rendered on my computer. For example using an adblocker on my PC while viewing a website is perfectly legal. Same with scripts that interfere with tracking. Now, if I go to the physical store and remove posters and cameras, I bet that will lead to some more resistance.
- matheusmoreira 4y agoSo what? Because websites are someone's imaginary property, they're somehow justified in literally wiretapping anyone who ever visits it? No. Websites are just some data and code that their servers send to my user agent. Once it's in my computer, it's under my control. Executing code and rendering elements are privileges and they can be revoked in case of abuse. If it's important enough to me I'll reverse engineer the website and write my own code to do what I want with zero foreign code execution.