Re:The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking serv...
by lwansbrough on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:20AM
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Explain to me how some of the world's most popular services would operate without advertising revenue?
Re:The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking serv...
by fulafel on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:32AM
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It's easy to see how "the Internet would become a noticeably nicer place" could be true while "some of the world's [previously] most popular services would operate" could be false at the same time.
Re:The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking serv...
by beagle3 on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:01AM
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That’s a cousin of the broken window fallacy, I am not sure it has a name, though.
How would the horse merchants operate if everyone used cars?
How would window fixers survive if there were no stones being thrown?
Optimally.
It plays out optimally.
If everyone suddenly installed and ran an aggressive ad-blocker, we could strangle all of the tracking networks overnight and the Internet would become a noticeably nicer place.
People who refuse to concede that allowing ads is functionally the same thing as inviting third parties to monitor your browsing patterns and invade your privacy are being disingenuous.