Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”
by Enginerrrd on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:12PM
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>I'd like to see secondary markets for PID banned outright, personally.
I totally agree with this, but I think it'd be terribly hard to implement in practice. How would you eliminate the rise of a single large body that partners with everyone during data consent forms? Sort of like a VISA for personal data. The result is the same, or arguably worse, but wouldn't be banned under your scheme.
Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent”
by samatman on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:52PM
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Regulatory capture, which is the broad umbrella I'd put that under, is a problem with any attempt at regulation, I agree.
We can imagine a better regime, which could say "if you attempt to cheat or skirt around on this, we're going to hammer you harder than if you just break the rules", but how to actually get it is pretty murky. Easy to aim for that, and land in a situation where shadowy individuals wield great and capricious power.
This is well-meaning but unfortunately it's also naive.
That kind of information, in aggregate, is trivial to de-anonymize at scale.
I'd like to see secondary markets for PID banned outright, personally. If you want that, go on the dark web and risk criminal sanctions. I'm sure there are some positive effects which would get thrown out with the enormous moral hazard, but I'd have to be convinced that it isn't worth it: as it stands, keeping personal user data should be a cost center for most businesses, something which exposes them to liability with no means to monetize other than providing whatever service they nominally exist for.