Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ...
by iamaelephant on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:32PM
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There's no reason to conflate "advertising" with "user-targeted advertising". There's nothing inherently privacy-breaking about advertising. A regular billboard doesn't track users, a print magazine ad doesn't track users and there's no reason internet advertisements absolutely need to track users.
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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ...
by johnday on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:08PM
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I wasn't conflating anything! I would be perfectly happy if all forms of advertising went away, targeted or otherwise. This wasn't a conversation about the reasons advertising was bad. I was just commenting that I don't think the internet would break if publishers stopped making money through advertising.