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The difference is the user. Your average smart TV user doesn't know what a residential proxy is, hell who's installing/playing the games but children? Consumer
by ozlikethewizard 2mo ago
The difference is the user. Your average smart TV user doesn't know what a residential proxy is, hell who's installing/playing the games but children? Consumer regulation to protect consumers from a knowledge disparity that leads to uninformed consent isn't a bad thing imo.
- quotemstr 2mo ago[flagged]
- ethbr1 2mo ago[dead]
- ozlikethewizard 2mo agoDid I say that? Regulate the companies that produce the products not the products themselves.
- beamy 2mo agoIsn’t this like arguing we shouldn’t have food standards because people should be free to decide what they put in their bodies? Sure, in principle that’s true. But in practice, is it really fair to expect everyone to understand the health risks of every possible ingredient? Likewise here, is it fair to expect the average consumer to understand what it means to host a residential proxy? Or even what a residential proxy is?
- soraminazuki 2mo agoThe industry has proved again and again and again over the past two decades that surveillance, manipulation, and profiteering is all they care about, and the public is wising up to this fact. "We're screwing you clueless people for your own sake" is no longer effective as a thought terminating cliche and can only create stronger animosity towards the industry.
- inigyou 2mo agoNote that residential proxies are not a surveillance technology, but an anti-surveillance technology. They defeat IP-address-based surveillance.