Avast profits through sales of users’ web browsing habits

Re:Avast profits through sales of users’ web browsing habits by netfl0 on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @09:13AM (#21752555)

Acceptable is relative. If you think it should be illegal, that is a different discussion. I do not see how my prediction of behavior in anyway normalizes the behavior or makes any value judgement of it for that matter.

If you think expressing outrage is the most productive thing to do here, we may disagree.

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Re:Avast profits through sales of users’ web browsing habits by JadeNB on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @11:18AM (#21753818)

> I do not see how my prediction of behavior in anyway normalizes the behavior or makes any value judgement of it for that matter.

I think that there's a difference between prediction and reaction. I agree that, before the fact, saying "it's not free; you're the product" may be productive. However, after the fact, saying "what did you expect? It was free and you're the product" only implicitly normalises the behaviour, compared to "that was predictable, but nonetheless is not OK."

(You didn't quite say either of these, but I read your response as being more of the "what did you expect?" form. Of course, I might have been wrong!)

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