Data privacy is all the rage and people want to have an internet where companies need permission to sell your data and where you can use the FREE service without letting them tell advertisers what you actually like.

There are only 2 possible models for the internet

  1. A free internet where websites, browsers and search engines make money by selling your data to companies who want to sell their products to users.

  2. A subscription based internet where you companies don’t use your data but charge a fee to use a specific website, browser or search engine.

I can guarantee that all these people complaining about “muh privacy” would not like having a paywall restricted internet.

  • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I can guarantee that all these people complaining about “muh privacy” would not like having a paywall restricted internet.

    As one of the privacy zealots on the internet, I’d gladly pay for services if it avoids advertisements. But I should get a choice in who gets my information.

    As things are now, I’m not in control of any of it unless I fight tooth and nail to retain it, and even then I can only limit what they have access to. Facebook tracks my browsing habits and builds an advertisement profile based on it even though I explicitly deleted my accounts almost 10 years ago.

    And this information isn’t just kept by Facebook. They have the right to sell it to anyone, including the government. Who needs a warrant when your local PD can just pay a data broker and get access to your GPS logs? After all, you consented to that website’s EULA that said they can sell that data to any other entity.

    People who don’t care about data privacy don’t understand how much you can learn about someone just from ‘anonymized metadata’.

    If it was a person wanting to know that much about you, you’d call the cops for stalking. But because it’s a multimillion dollar company with a profit motive, it’s suddenly okay?