Adtech is built on a privacy fault line

Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by brandall10 on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:47PM (#36975199)

If you're not paying for a product in which you see the ad, it is your problem though, no? What's in the ad space is immaterial, just that is how the product is monetized.

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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by pessimizer on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:41PM (#36976127)

If everybody pays, the ads come right back. Paying customers are more lucrative to advertisers than deadbeats.

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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by barbazoo on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:54PM (#36975322)

Problem is though that everyone is being tracked, whether they use free products that show ads based on that data or not. I don't want to be tracked like that but I have very little power here other than blocking certain domains which is never perfect.

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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by amelius on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:50PM (#36975246)

The freaking ad is making me pay twice. Once with my attention, and then again with my money if I buy the product (since the advertising cost is incorporated into the price).

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Re:Adtech is built on a privacy fault line by JohnFen on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:52PM (#36977236)

And a third time with your data.

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