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30 years on the Internet and I am still waiting to see the huuuuuge damage I get from companies tracking me online. Because targeted ads I didn't mind. But you
by nickpp 4y ago
30 years on the Internet and I am still waiting to see the huuuuuge damage I get from companies tracking me online. Because targeted ads I didn't mind.
But you had to equate them with bioweapons and teen suicide. Do you really find them comparable? How?!
Meanwhile millions of man-hours are wasted across the EU hunting and closing annoying cookie consent dialogs. Small ad-supported business which existed since the beginning of the internet now don't. And we don't even know what we are missing.
Because this is how regulations damage the world: they embrace a (supposed) benefit but nobody compares it with the price paid. Opportunities missed. And what should be in the end a personal decision is stolen from us in an overpowering decision made in our names and "for our own good".
- nephanth 4y agoUm remember PRISM? Or the cloud act? I seriously don't understand how you can get so outraged at countries trying to hamper a foreign government from mass spying at their population. That sounds like Also,i fail to see your point: small ad-supported businesses in the beginning of the internet did not rely on tracking and targeted ads, did they?
- nickpp 4y agoI do not trust a government to protect me against spying by another. I trust the EU less than the USA - it's deeply infiltrated by Russian influence. I trust my own government the least: it is completely corrupted and only interested to rob and destroy me.