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Whatever you think of advertising, it doesn't have to enable government spying. Moving ads to HTTPS would solve the eavesdropping problem. Google has already an
by nosnoopcharter 11y ago
Whatever you think of advertising, it doesn't have to enable government spying. Moving ads to HTTPS would solve the eavesdropping problem. Google has already announced it's doing just that.
Also, it's not that simple for an Internet user to stop tracking or advertising. According to an academic paper from a few years back, there are dozens of ways to track a user, and many protections aren't very effective.
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/files/publication/files/trackingsurvey12.pdf https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/files/publication/files/tracki...
- hobs 11y agoIf entities on the internet are incentivized to track you, its likely the government can get the data whether or not it is encrypted in transit. (NSL, Hacking the company, blackmail, bribery, legal/business/tax threats, other court order)
- PhantomGremlin 11y ago(NSL, Hacking the company, blackmail, bribery, legal/business/tax threats, other court order) That's how things used to work. The government has always wanted to track specific people for specific reasons. Perhaps 1% (debatable) of the population. Like it or not, they will keep doing that. What is abhorrent to me is that the government has decided to track 100% of the people 100% of the time. That's what everyone is fighting against.