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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by joshuamorton on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:50PM (#23604143)
Many of the features users find useful (let's ignore for the moment whether these are good things) like content recommendations and search result recommendations rely on the same understanding of user interests that allow these companies to target advertisements.

So they need to understand your interests anyway to provide the services that people find useful. So they still need forms of tracking to do the things that people find useful on the sites.

So what do we do?

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Re:Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project is pushing Big Tech t... by metrokoi on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:58PM (#23608390)
They could just collect your data and not monetize it. If a paid user can decide whether or not they want those features. Facebook could easily monetize it anyway, but they could also monetize a paid user and day they aren't. Everything we are discussing is hypothetical anyway.
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