Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet...
by rchaud on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:51PM
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> but I'd consider paying a fee to eliminate all internet-based advertising and tracking.
It's too late for that, I'm afraid. Google and the others have invested billions in their ad products and made back many more billions. It wouldn't make any sense for them to offer any kind of paid opt-out.
And even if you didn't use any Google services, they already have reams of data on you based on your correspondence with anyone with a Gmail account, plus whatever data they can buy off your carrier network and your credit card provider.
Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet...
by JoeAltmaier on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:56PM
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Why not? Their per-human revenue is in the single-digit dollars. If I pay $10, they're ahead of the game.
Netflix etc do it with premium services etc
Such a system could be easily abused, however, without some kind of bulletproof third-party auditing in place.
If Google offered an ad-free, tracking-free version of all of their services (maps, gmail, search, docs, youtube, etc.) I might even consider using it.