Disqus, a dark commenting system

Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by unicornporn on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:14AM (#26033917)

Exactly. This blog clearly showed that tracking remained even after switching to a paid plan. These companies have tasted the forbidden fruit of surveillance capitalism and they won't roll back voluntarily.

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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by Talanes on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:34AM (#26034002)

The market-based approach wouldn't have these companies rolling back their surveillance, but consumers en masse moving over to paid, privacy-focused alternatives.

I don't actually consider this remotely likely, but the world is getting weirder, so I'm not writing off the highly improbable so easily.

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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by bachmeier on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:46AM (#26034620)

> The market-based approach wouldn't have these companies rolling back their surveillance, but consumers en masse moving over to paid, privacy-focused alternatives.

I see what you're saying, but you're referring to something like a "market-based solution" to this problem. The one and only market-based outcome is the one we have. This is a case of imperfect information. There's no reason to expect a market-only approach to deliver a desirable outcome when one party has so much more information than the other.

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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by Talanes on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:06AM (#26045295)

"What has happened is all that could happen" is surely not the best line of argument you have?

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Re:Disqus, a dark commenting system by unicornporn on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:09AM (#26034440)

There's an excellent example in this very thread on how politics (i.e. democracy) can trump capital.

Read here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26034131