Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High
by ajeet_dhaliwal on Sunday April 15, 2018 @07:01PM
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If you are buying a product/service and it says it won't do something (like sell your data) and does anyway, that's clearly wrong. They agreed to protect your privacy. With services that state they will use your data to run targeted ads you are immediately accepting the loss of privacy.
Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High
by 2muchcoffeeman on Sunday April 15, 2018 @07:30PM
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Being ad free is not the same as not tracking though. They are just saying, you get the version with no ads.
"clearly wrong" means nothing if you can't win a law suit against megacorp's carefully worded legalese. "We use this information to improve the Service" means game over.
I don't think that will hold up against GDPR.
Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High
by icebraining on Monday April 16, 2018 @05:49AM
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It won't, but despite the complaints that the GDPR reaches too far, it still only protects a minority of worldwide users.
Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High
by realpeopleio on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:39AM
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What if there were a trusted third-party that periodically audited the business to see if they were protecting your privacy of not. Would people value or trust that? And who would people trust to do the audit?
For me that kind of problem is the blocker, and "oh look nobody paid for for the premium version, therefore people don't value privacy" is a bit disingenuous.