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Yeah. Having thought about this long and hard, lucrative behavioral advertising seems like a fair price to pay for an open, free (as in beer), internet. I fea
by riversflow 3y ago
Yeah.
Having thought about this long and hard, lucrative behavioral advertising seems like a fair price to pay for an open, free (as in beer), internet.
I fear this type of regulation will only serve to make the internet become much less equitable.
- MauranKilom 3y agoWithout trying to dismiss your opinion: Was the internet before Google/ad-tech not "open, free (as in beer)"?
- riversflow 3y agoWell it certainly wasn’t equitable, connected computers were the realm of the rich. The problem with free services is scaling them to significant portions of the entire population.
- phatfish 3y agoMy family wasn't rich and we had a "connected computer" in 97/98 before ad-tech really took over. Getting online was far less costly than the computer itself.
- mcmoor 3y agoDamn an in my country (Indonesia) even in 2010 it's still the other way around. Even to this day I can't see my fellow countrymen paid for anything online partly because everything used to be so expensive we always have to find cheaper (pirated) version. By comparison privacy is worthless (for us).
- Cyph0n 3y agoDid you also have access to free email (beyond a measly few MBs), maps, video hosting, and private data storage? Because that's what ad-tech enabled. Getting online wasn't the hard part. Not saying that ad-tech is purely good, of course.