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No thank you. My privacy is worth a bit more than $25
by BryanB55 15y ago
No thank you. My privacy is worth a bit more than $25
- pagekalisedown 15y agoIt's 5$ every 3 full months of participation, up to 25$. Seems extremely low.
- Sumaso 15y agoIt is a low amount of money, but what are you giving up in order to get that money? A little privacy? Edit: It seems like Google is giving you 5 dollars, for you to do absolutely nothing out of the ordinary
- drivebyacct2 15y agoOut of curiosity, how much money would you need before you'd be willing to give up this aspect of your privacy?
- dansul 15y agoA percentage of what they make from your data should be a fair deal. Although some (like myself) value privacy more than pocket money.
- beneth 15y agoI'm willing to bet that would work out to FAR less than $25.
- dansul 15y agoThis is a year's worth of data-sharing, I think they will gain much more than the equivalent of $25 per user.
- rjd 15y agoI doubt it, some CPM on things like travel sites are easily $25, 3 adds per page, you browse for say a fortnight looking at holidays you'll easily hit your 1000 views/$25 mark
- otakucode 15y agoThat would be the best system. 95% of all revenue generated through use of the data, with transparent accounting of every use of the data. Some of that can be hard to quantify, but Google has already run these numbers. They wouldn't float a program like this if they didn't already know that a persons browsing history for a year can be used by them to bring in several thousand times more revenue than it will cost. (As to how I got 95%.. I figured 10% is the centuries-old standard "finder's fee" people collect when they hook up a buyer and a seller. Google isn't even doing this. They're doing more the equivalent of 'let us harvest all the wheat from your field, and we'll go sell it'. Google can't grow the wheat, so they have to buy it from someone else. You could sell it directly, but it would be a minor pain in the ass. So they're likely entitled to about half of the standard finder's fee.)
- Zirro 15y agoFor me, the answer to that question depends on what happens with my data. Should I assume the worst?
- drivebyacct2 15y agoWell that raises another interesting question, what is the worst? Is it selling it? Is it publishing your browsing history with your name on a blog?
- romanows 15y agoThe worst thing is probably publishing or acting on something that is, in order of importance: succinct, damaging, hard-to-refute, and true.
- rms 15y ago$25/month
- randomdata 15y agoThat was my first thought too, and allowing it be revokable by either party.
- mda 15y agoYour ISP knows all the sites you visit.
- ohashi 15y agoDoes it? VPNs make this easy to get around. Tor does as well. HTTP proxies.
- mda 15y ago99% of internet users uses none of the things you mentioned.
- alphamale3000 15y agoI'd say 99.99%.
- nicksuan 15y agoUsing a VPN (or a proxy) just moves the argument from your ISP, to the ISP where the VPN endpoint is located.
- Zirro 15y agoBut the data is no longer tied to me as it leaves the VPN-service.
- nicksuan 15y agoI wouldn't be so sure: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/231602248 http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/2316022...
- Zirro 15y agoI am aware of this case, and have asked my VPN-service explicitly. Their (translated) reply was: "We do not store any logs, and we are not planning to do so. Since we do not store anything, we have nothing to hand out to those who are asking."