Judge approves Facebook's settlement with FTC over ‘stunning’ privacy violations

Re:Judge approves Facebook's settlement with FTC over ‘stunn... by zelphirkalt on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:33AM (#23065443)

For newspapers: Ask for donation or promote subscriptions, almost no one will mind, but don't spam us with ads and tracking, without consent. Then we can talk. Unless you honest up, there is nothing we will talk about.

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Re:Judge approves Facebook's settlement with FTC over ‘stunn... by nindalf on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:41AM (#23065475)

I disagree.

If you're speaking about people on HN, then you're possibly right. (Debatable how much though)

But people in general will mind being asked to open their wallets, to enter their payment details into a website that they don't want to trust with sensitive info while they don't mind seeing (and ignoring) a few ads.

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Re:Judge approves Facebook's settlement with FTC over ‘stunn... by zelphirkalt on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:16AM (#23066649)

Actually I was only taking about myself and how I see it, but perhaps this view is more prevalent on HN than in other communities, yes. I'd like to think that is, because people on HN are more technical and more informed about how this stuff works, than the average Internet visitor.

Anyway, they could offer people to support them for example via GNU Taler, which aims to keep the "buyer" anonymous and the seller not anonymous, so the problem of entering payment detail is out of the way, using a free software solution.

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Re:Judge approves Facebook's settlement with FTC over ‘stunn... by tsimionescu on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:49PM (#23074299)

Historically, advertising has always been the main source of income for almost all non-state news organizations, so I don't see any reason to think a non-advertising model would work on the Internet.

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