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And the potential use of this data by governments around the world for less innocuous purposes than "showing relevant ads". It is not too surprising that compa
by throw101010 3y ago
And the potential use of this data by governments around the world for less innocuous purposes than "showing relevant ads".
It is not too surprising that companies who can profit from it push the data collection as far as they can. It is more surprising/troubling how the people in general seem to either have completely capitulated due to the generalization of the data collection... or fail to understand the implications it can have.
Thankfully some people in EU courts still think that privacy is a right.
- corbezzoli 3y agoGot it, so why not outlaw that? For all we know, they can continue doing what but not show us relevant ads. I suppose twitter knows nothing about me and shows me stupid gaming ads all the time. I click on them exactly 0 times. Show me something relevant to what I see on HN and probably will even find it useful. If I can’t block all ads, at least show me something useful.
- chefandy 3y agoWell, a good start would be a ban specifically on the behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram which in recent US elections exposed dangerous consequences when bad actors were thrown into the mix. Many people wrote millions of words about it over the better part of the past decade if you are inexplicably unfamiliar with the problem. The idea that anyone could effectively outlaw political influence by covert operatives directed by nation states is patently ridiculous, so you have to look at the mechanism they used to do it. And, voila! That's the topic of this post.