1. Non-personalized (non-intrusive) ads
2. One time payment
3. Yearly subscription
4. Ads that mine Bitcoin or otherwise make use of my compute resources
5. Monthly subscription
6. Personalized, intrusive ads
I will go out of my way to actively avoid 4-6. For 3 it would hav to be DAMN good software.
Spyvertising is that, but at an industrial scale. If one's creepy and ought to warrant intervention by law enforcement, the other's much, much worse.
E.g. when I look at code I don't want ads for photography equipment, but ads for coding courses or books may be juuust acceptable. It also has the nice benefit of not needing personalization, so the sibling comments' points are also included.
Are you for real?
Want to know what your employer has you working on? Let's see what searches you've done.
Want to know what your employees are doing? Let's see what things they're buying.
Fuck that obnoxious bullshit.
You probably don't want your employer to know that you have cancer, are hiding a fling, and could soon have family problems requiring you to take a leave of absence.
- I think it should be my right to share the details of my work with anyone.
- It's already illegal to discriminate against people because they have cancer, and I don't think that imperfect enforcement of privacy on the internet is going to significantly affect anyone's chances of this happening to them.
- If someone does something and faces consequences for it, I don't think that's a bad thing.
Honestly seeing people's responses here and elsewhere on the internet is kind of a Kafkaesque experience for me because everyone seems so convinced that internet privacy is valuable yet no one seems to actually have thought through their position (no offense to you personally). I guess I can only conclude that my base values differ in this area.
I agree! So why are you letting third parties get that information without you having any ability to provide or decline consent?
> It's already illegal to discriminate against people because they have cancer, and I don't think that imperfect enforcement of privacy on the internet is going to significantly affect anyone's chances of this happening to them.
You think people don't do things that are illegal?
> no one seems to actually have thought through their position
Can you explain that better?
> I guess I can only conclude that my base values differ in this area.
I think that much is clear.
- it is also illegal to steal from homes. Do you lock your front door?
That’s hypothetical but big publishers already make financial calculations about your profile based on your page visits. So the rest is extrapolation.
We have no control over the correctness of information and no way to correct it.