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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by mizay7 on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:50PM (#23603318)
Yeh, this seems backwards, the users pay the companies for free products with their data and their attention. That's the business model. Why would Facebook and Google run those servers if they couldn't have profitably targeted ads.

If you want privacy honoring products you want the users to pay money for the service.

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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by luisvictoria on Monday June 22, 2020 @01:56PM (#23603404)
This argument makes perfect sense, the problem starts when companies like Facebook start tracking individuals who do not use their services.
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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by mizay7 on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:26PM (#23603780)
Agreed, and that should be illegal. Having companies pay for data of non-users as part of Yang's proposal doesn't change anything.
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