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A comment on Ask HN: Is online privacy possible without legislation?.

Re:Ask HN: Is online privacy possible without legislation? by trasz on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:07AM (#32011153)
Some legislation is hurting privacy. For example it’s the legislation that makes it a crime to “extort ads” using bots.

We need a way to make the entire privacy invasion business not profitable.

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Re:Ask HN: Is online privacy possible without legislation? by lukeschwartz on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:45AM (#32011436)
> We need a way to make the entire privacy invasion business not profitable.

i.e., How to pay for the Web (and all other related privacy-invasive platforms) without ads?

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Re:Ask HN: Is online privacy possible without legislation? by Nextgrid on Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:29AM (#32011714)
Good old money?

The problem isn't that people don't want to pay, it's that a lot of content out there isn't valuable enough to pay for and only survives currently because ads are a form of non-refundable payment that just takes a click.

If ads were no longer sustainable, the market will find a way around that. Some trash will go out of business but it won't be missed anyway.

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