Re:Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
by re4ctor on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @10:42AM
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That then gets into the ethics of should privacy only be for the wealthy
Re:Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
by oldmanhorton on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:51AM
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That's fair, but before computers, not much was available for free. Getting a newspaper would generally cost money, as would using the payphone to communicate, as would so many other things that are now freely available. So, while its definitely a problem, as long as it's cheap enough for "most" people to afford it, then I think we aren't really regressing?
Perhaps if we consider information on the internet to be vital to daily life, a program like food stamps could be implemented? It sounds rather over engineered but it's the only idea I've ever heard for working around the "privacy is only for the wealthy" concern.
Re:Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
by lotsofpulp on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:02AM
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And that would get into the ethics of not allowing non wealthy people to pay with their data.
Maybe sites will move to a model that you'll be offered to pay for their services if you block trackers. So you'll have a choice of paying with your data or paying with your money.
Either way someone has to foot the bill at the end. I guess in this case most users will let trackers work instead of paying.