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Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by freehorse on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:01AM (#40594384)
The only reason that privacy issues exist online in the first place is the advertising business. The advertising business increases the costs of everything. So, enjoy your "free youtube videos" that contain advertisements for which you pay through the products you buy and are advertised. Privacy being "rich people's game" is BS because essentially everybody pays for the advertising costs in a rather horizontal fashion.
Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by sambazi on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:36PM (#40600825)
tracking for advertising can also be seen as a stop-gap measure against surveillance because the financial incentive for quantity corrupts the quality of the data
Re:Microsoft AI Spying Scandal: Time to Rethink Privacy Stan... by chuckadams on Thursday June 06, 2024 @03:54PM (#40601645)
If it were just about targeted advertising offsetting the platform costs, I’d be fine with it. It’s that my digital footprint is being sold to everyone with two nickels to rub together that torques me off.