Re:How Google Is Cleaning The Web Of Comment Spam
by eevilspock on Friday December 27, 2013 @12:56AM
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...Google is obviously well versed in this economics stuff, that incentives matter....If you change the incentives then you will change peoples’ behavior.
Google has a $50 billion annual revenue inventive from advertisers to not give a shit about our privacy. There's very little incentive to protect user privacy because people are easily tricked into believing that trading their privacy gets them something free in return when in fact it is not free at all, and in fact even more expensive than it would have been [1].
What is needed is a non-profit, open-source search engine. And the same for social networking. Perhaps Wikipedia style. Let's ditch the bad incentives.
Google has a $50 billion annual revenue inventive from advertisers to not give a shit about our privacy. There's very little incentive to protect user privacy because people are easily tricked into believing that trading their privacy gets them something free in return when in fact it is not free at all, and in fact even more expensive than it would have been [1].
What is needed is a non-profit, open-source search engine. And the same for social networking. Perhaps Wikipedia style. Let's ditch the bad incentives.
[1] No free lunch, no free web, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624666