“Your money or your privacy!” Google to enable publishers to extort people who protect their privacy on the Web.http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40132519 …
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Replying to @aral
I'm all for privacy. But publishers should be allowed their business model to. I'd be fine paying for a product instead of being the product
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Replying to @ccgirl
Not if that business model erodes human rights (as the adtech model does).
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Replying to @aral
Journalism co.s w/ 2 options for customers: be the product ( adtech) or pay for product, are now extortion? No way. Journalism has value.
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This misses the point, it's the tracking, gathering of personal info, lack of transparency, not to mention security issues from online ads.
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Journalism is one of the most vital institutions we have, but invasive ads and expecting users to pay for every news source are not the way.
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Yes, no way to opt out of tracking is huge prob. Curious what business model besides directly paying each news source you think would work.
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1. Trackerless freemium 2. Flattr 4. Traditional (non-tracking) ads 5. Commons-based funding, if we feel a free press is in the common good…
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