Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?

Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by slipheen on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:05AM (#22663701)

I don't think this will work well.

If you give them that leeway, they'll claim everything is voluntary.

"Oh, you can go into [random place in settings that changes every week] and disable each one of your anxieties. It will remain disabled for 72 hours"

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Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by rcxdude on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:37AM (#22663960)

I think the point is no data collection: only targeting based on stuff you explicitly enter on a clearly indicated form.

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Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by mLuby on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:17AM (#22664297)

Right, but then like "accepting cookies" or ToS/EULAs they'll just make explicitly giving them this permission a requirement for using their application, and we're back to where we were before.

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Re:Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? by rcxdude on Monday March 23, 2020 @01:51PM (#22666661)

I don't mean you put in a form like 'collect my age', 'collect my occupation', etc. I mean there's a form which you can enter your age, occupation, etc. If it's made mandatory you can just lie.

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