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Then Facebook should cease to exist. Nothing of value will be lost. Seriously: People should stop making excuses for the Free Market For Surveillance. Anyone wh
by EarlKing 4y ago
Then Facebook should cease to exist. Nothing of value will be lost. Seriously: People should stop making excuses for the Free Market For Surveillance. Anyone who "needs" to violate my privacy to make a buck needs to get a job instead.
In all seriousness: Society had an advertising industry for well over a century that didn't require jamming a porkoscope up your ass and everyone got along just fine. Just because one can invade the privacy of billions with impunity nowadays does not by any means imply that you should.
- atemerev 4y agoYes, and people were happily reading news in newspapers for centuries. Targeted advertising exists, it is legal everywhere, and we are way past the point it could be put back in the bottle. What still can (and should) be regulated is privately identifying information management, and so far things are improving in this direction.
- EarlKing 4y agoTargeted advertising is invasive of my privacy, and it doesn't matter if it's legal everywhere -- lots of things are legal everywhere and remain ethically abhorrent -- and insofar as every single user retains control of their individual machines we can put that genie back in the bottle right now just by installing an ad blocker which, in case you haven't noticed, more and more people are doing precisely because of this entitled attitude towards users' personal information. As long as people think that they are entitled to my information I will continue to both use an ad blocker and recommend ad blockers to everyone I know. Stop being nosy.