Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law

Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by ianmcgowan on Friday September 20, 2019 @12:06AM (#21023265)

Would you pay $5 on top of that ISP charge to Google, so that your search experience is ad-free? Would you pay $5 for fastmail.com's standard plan over gmail?

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by pmontra on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:25AM (#21023763)

$5 for a tracking free Google, including no Google ads on any site? Maybe. But then it would be $5 to any other tracking network and there will probably be some other tracking with no opt out. I'll be still running adblockers and privacy extensions, so paying is pointless.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by BoorishBears on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:50AM (#21026623)

Ha, case in point. A technical person talking themselves out of a hypothetical situation where they pay, now imagine everyone else.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by pmontra on Saturday September 21, 2019 @11:21AM (#21035872)

The point is that I wouldn't be paying for a search service, I would be paying for not to be tracked, which is something I don't want to happen. It's so similar to paying for insurance against fires (think of gangster movies.) I don't like it.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by johnny22 on Friday September 20, 2019 @04:39AM (#21024468)

I in fact do pay for fastmail.

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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by BoorishBears on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:13AM (#21026287)

You and the vast minority of internet users.

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