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Imagine every website had a widget on the side giving an EXAMPLE of how your data will be used. Like "You have been marked with liking chocolate velvet cakes. T
by andirk 2y ago
Imagine every website had a widget on the side giving an EXAMPLE of how your data will be used. Like "You have been marked with liking chocolate velvet cakes. This data can and will be used against you in the court of the next website you go to"
- mavhc 2y agoimagine the horror of being shown ads you find useful
- cdmckay 2y agoImagine the horror of not being shown ads at all
- mavhc 2y agoGoogle did try letting you pay to not see ads, guess not enough people did it as they killed the programme
- andirk 2y agoI am personally fine with advertisements curated to me. I intentionally interact with Instagram ads that I like to affect the algorithm, even if I don't care for the product at that moment. However, with request fingerprinting [0] and the like, the targeting can go far beyond the web surfer's awareness and desires. [0] https://amiunique.org/fingerprint https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
- laxis96 2y agoImagine the horror of not having to sift through tens of ads just to read a single paragraph of text, and not being constantly nagged by full screen popup video ads...