Re:Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
by jay_kyburz on Saturday April 10, 2021 @07:07PM
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There are much better options to provide people with educational, informative and entertaining content.
Well funded public broadcasters like Australia ABC provide news and entertainment content free. (both text and video)
Well funded public libraries can provide a wide range of alternate content.
My family is made up of poor immigrants, many of whom are back in their home country. Free communication systems are a godsend for them.
While I love libraries and public broadcasting, I learned to code as a poor kid through library books, they are not the full solution and they never provided free, instant, and any time international communication for people.
Re:Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
by google234123 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @10:03PM
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Yeah, let's pretend libraries have equivalent content to the free internet!
Who's pretending? Ads naturally and quite effectively price-discriminate, and so they do make internet content cheaper for people with less money.
You may have problems with excessive consumption, but many people in developing countries do not. They desperately need the free content (educational, informative, and otherwise) that the current internet model provides them.