Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder

Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by amiga386 on Sunday October 15, 2023 @07:38AM (#37888923)

This was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track and it did not work. Surveillance capitalism is just worth too much to websites to even pay lip service to user privacy.

The only thing that works is having your user-agent mercilessly chop the survelliance shit out of web pages. Don't evaluate it, don't render it. Because thw websites will forever be hostile to your interests while they can enrich themselves by datamining you.

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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by danaris on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:13AM (#37889109)

It didn't work because there was no law backing it. It's purely a "voluntary self-regulation mechanism".

Voluntary self-regulation doesn't work on greedy assholes who don't care how much of the web they make unusable as long as they get an extra 0.0003¢ per page view.

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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by speleding on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:28AM (#37889196)

I'm aware of that header, but respecting it is voluntary, which is highly unlikely to work if there is a strong monetary incentive not to comply.

It's also pretty coarse. I may want to allow a site I like to collect analytics to help them out, I may even want a search engine to keep track of my behaviour to give me better results. Just an on/off, where IE has set the default to off, was never going to work.

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Re:Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims... by MaxBarraclough on Sunday October 15, 2023 @10:29AM (#37890037)

If Global Privacy Control takes off it will be much like Do Not Track, except with legal power, in some jurisdictions at least.

https://globalprivacycontrol.org/#about

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