Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Year Ago

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by TeMPOraL on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:01PM (#19226878)

So here's a different idea. I wish EU would legislate that all 3rd party ads in electronic media need a machine-readable tag constructed in a way that is trivially readable (e.g. <div class='ad'> instead of requiring training a ML model on rendered page to recognize; metadata or a red pixel in the corner on video streams, etc.), and denotes the exact area taken by the ad, or otherwise facilitate its removal. Coupled with GDPR, this would end ad-tracking bullshit by fiat (at least for Europe).

(By 3rd party ads I mean all ads that are advertising anything not directly sold or provided by the owner of the service showing that ad. That's to resolve the immediate objection of whether telling people about new features is an ad or not.)

Man can dream.

EDIT: But this man would also vote for the person pushing for such legislation.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by pbhjpbhj on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:44PM (#19227292)

Isn't it just weird that we can't vote for that issue without getting every other issue the person also wants, like why must issues be lumped in to person-bundles. It's just broken.

Personally I'm stuck with voting for "the party not dismantling the NHS who stand a chance of getting in".

Maybe in my kids lifetime we'll get proper PR at the national level (UK).

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by TeMPOraL on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:38PM (#19227821)

It's what I find appealing about the concept of "fluid democracy" - the ability to vote on particular issue in isolation. Taking it to the extreme is probably a bad idea, but so is our current way.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by sideshowb on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:52PM (#19228532)

As is commonly quoted, putting every issue to public vote would lead to bringing back the death penalty.

...also brexit ;-)

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Promised a Clear History Tool Almost a Ye... by pbhjpbhj on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:07PM (#19228660)

Brexit has really damaged my faith in democracy.

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