For Silicon Valley: “..or better yet, to find new revenue streams that don’t rely on commodifying people’s private behavior. This is all the more important because people can’t meaningfully opt out.”—@MarechalPhD does a deep dive! https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world …
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though I don’t think ad-based business models require surveillance or hyper-targeting
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Quite. We had ad-funded media for 300 years before adtech started using the ads to spy on users. Static advertising didn’t stop working. Advertisers just thought more data had to be better, and nobody regulated against it
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The only trouble is convincing J. Random Human of that :/
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Alternatively not everything needs to be about wringing every last bit of money. Look at Wikipedia, imagine if that was an ipo, it would now be a mess/unusable
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Or (and), as the author of "Radical Markets" advocate, head towards a radically different model with treating the production and transfer of data as labor, rather than as a source of free capital for the tech companies to monetize and profit from however they see fit.
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Also, on mobile, with bandwidth to download the ads. The bandwidth costs an order of magnitude more than the ads themselves!
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Yes, privacy should never be yielded for ads without an option to pay instead. We also need strong safeguards on 2nd-hand use, especially because permissions are often too broad. I shouldn't have to give access to ALL files just so a program can read a single file or folder.
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