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Re:Surveillance Capitalism by aleksaxyz on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:10PM (#22849980)
Manipulated in what ways? Advertisement is manipulation when it's successful. Asking users for a monthly subscription is manipulation when successful. Do we create a pop-up banner for each site and app listing out how data is used, so people can click X on those?

Transparency of data use is important, but simply saying people don't know isn't going to help. It seems like people want to shove transparency of data use in everyone's face until no one uses that software anymore. What is the win in this situation?

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Re:Surveillance Capitalism by duncan-donuts on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:41PM (#22850186)
why does there need to be a winning situation? I think the entire point when taking the position of privacy is that you should not be using this software because the down stream effect is more damaging than the potential gains from the software.

All that being said if we’ve learned anything from software messages is that no one will ever read them. We trained ourselves 25 years ago blindly dismissing nonsense error messages on windows.

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