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What is lost in this discussion is that now my browser, software on my machine, using my resources is the agent that is acting against my own interests.
by josho 3y ago
What is lost in this discussion is that now my browser, software on my machine, using my resources is the agent that is acting against my own interests.
- tantalor 3y agoYour browser has been serving ad banners since 1994, nothing new here.
- dspillett 3y agoThe simple display of a sponsored banner and the systematic tracking of people throughout their online activities are not the same thing.
- tantalor 3y ago> not the same thing Never said they were, only that they both using your browser & resources "against your own interests", and this is not a good argument against tracking.
- dspillett 3y agoWhen just displaying a static banner add, your browser is a lot more passive than implied by "agent that is acting" in the GPP. Simply displaying an image (with a little HTML for the link) and perhaps caching it in local storage is quite different from collecting & collating logs about you and distributing that back out to the where internet. You are right about the bit of the post you noticed though, both do use at least some resources. This system more, but the simple banner still some.