Re:Searching for a Future Beyond Facebook
by 0xdead_beef on Friday May 04, 2018 @02:17PM
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I'd rather be exposed to generic advertising in the form of billboards, banners, and commercials, than head towards the dystopian future of The Minority Report in which you're constantly tracked, biometrics measured, and eyeballs scanned in order for advertisers to bombard you with personalized greetings and targeted ads that follow you relentlessly.
It's already too creepy that my smartphone has trained its autocorrect with words I've never texted before but can extrapolate from my digital footprint.
No, but I guess properly informing them about the consequences for privacy will.
> there's usually a bunch saying "I'd rather not have ads, but if I do have them, I want personalized ads."
How badly do they want that? It sounds to me like they don't really care.
>No, but I guess properly informing them about the consequences for privacy will.
That's a poor assumption on your part that they are not properly informed. In real life, when I've met such people, they are properly informed. It would be arrogant for me to think that the ones on the Internet forums are any different - especially when they are responding to submissions that are clearly outlining the negatives of this kind of tracking.
Many users are in favor of targeted advertising. In a lot of forums where this is discussed, I usually just look for heavily downvoted comments - there's usually a bunch saying "I'd rather not have ads, but if I do have them, I want personalized ads."
Downvoting them won't make the sentiment go away.