And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    We care about your privacy which is why we are sharing your date with almost 1000 services 998 of which are fully redundant and only 1 is actually needed for the service we provide

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        9 months ago

        Legitimate interests don’t require a banner. The simple fact you see a banner means their lawyers know they couldn’t convince the dumbest judge that they actually need that stuff.

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      9 months ago

      lmao I love when they say “we care about your privacy” then they go on to say exactly how much data they’re gonna collect and process

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    9 months ago

    I think I recently saw ~840 somewhere.

    To replace the current big tech business, I have a few suggestions:

    1. Use FOSS (Free and open source software)
    2. If this is not possible, try to find software that does not invade your privacy and made by a smaller company
    3. Try to avoid paying privacy invading companies. I’m not saying never pay for proprietary software, but try to only spend the money on ones that respect you.
    4. Spread the word about good FOSS apps
    5. Donate to FOSS
    6. Vote for politicians who are serious about antitrust
    7. If you have the skills, contribute to FOSS or make your own software!
    8. Use adblockers on websites that don’t respect you and/or your privacy
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    9 months ago

    I think I saw 1500 this week somewhere…

    All I want to know is, how can it be profitable to be an ad broker at that point?

  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

    back-to-me-shining JB-shining-aggro stalin-shining mao-aggro-shining

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    9 months ago

    And what can we do to make the Internet a more safe and privacy friendly place and replace the ad business by something less unpleasant ?

    Start paying for stuff. Subscriptions, etc.

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      9 months ago

      Great, so now we get to pay for the privilege of having our data harvested by 814 “partners”

      Remember: “if you aren’t paying for the product then you are the product” is no longer accurate, you’re the product regardless of paying or not now.

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        9 months ago

        Why just make money from subscription fees when you can make EVEN MORE money by serving adds as well?

        I’m just happy that I got to see the glory days of the digital world before advertising moved in.

      • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Yup. Just how cable TV started as “you pay extra for it, but you don’t get any ads!” and then when they realized they had everybody hooked, they started showing ads.

        Same thing with streaming services. Pay money for a service with no Ads. Oh what’s that? Now that they realize they are your primary source of content, they are going to turn ads on unless you pay extra? Boom, gottem.

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        9 months ago

        Paying for a service is generally going to result in less of a push to monetize the data though, especially if it’s a smaller provider or a private company.

        We can’t just give up and stick with ad supported services, but then not want to see ads… Ad-supported services are always going to have to try monetize you somehow, whereas paid services don’t always need to.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 months ago

      Sure. I’m a fanatical ad-blocker myself, but sometimes using Tor browser with the defaults.

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    9 months ago

    Whenever I see a cookie banner say something like “We respect your privacy” I chuckle.

    Because if they would actually respect my privacy, they wouldn’t have had a banner in the first place.