Privacy search-engine company DuckDuckGo submits “The Do-Not-Track Act of 2019” to improve online privacy

[Crossbred]

On 5/12/2019 at 2:22 PM, ARikozuM said:

SOAK THE RICH!!!

 

Oh, sorry...

 

KEELAR KOOEEN

I'll note that internet access is not since ethereal human right and that the only reason it exists is because corporations can profit from it. Telling them not to track your data is as good as saying that, at your whim, they lose a big chunk of revenue. (Not that they're not completely oversaturated with cash, however...)

[mr moose]

5 minutes ago, Crossbred said:

I'll note that internet access is not since ethereal human right and that the only reason it exists is because corporations can profit from it. Telling them not to track your data is as good as saying that, at your whim, they lose a big chunk of revenue. (Not that they're not completely oversaturated with cash, however...)

 

Naturally lost revenue from the cessation of any type of data tracking will ultimately increase the cost of goods, or at best just slow the rate at which products become cheaper.  But that is a price I think you will find most people are happy with if it means unsavory data harvesting is avoided.

 

 

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, mr moose said:

 

Naturally lost revenue from the cessation of any type of data tracking will ultimately increase the cost of goods, or at best just slow the rate at which products become cheaper.  But that is a price I think you will find most people are happy with if it means unsavory data harvesting is avoided.

 

 

Or at the least the one profiting off of the data should be the user, not the corporation. 

[Crossbred]

22 hours ago, mr moose said:

 

Naturally lost revenue from the cessation of any type of data tracking will ultimately increase the cost of goods, or at best just slow the rate at which products become cheaper.  But that is a price I think you will find most people are happy with if it means unsavory data harvesting is avoided.

 

 

For sure. I think in the future I'm going to move my sensitive internet usage to a separate untracked machine, but for convenience's sake I don't mind tracking whatever I browse casually on my Android. I think the trade of convenience for data is fine in most cases as long as users have control over it, but in effect I think companies should be able to cut some (keyword: some) services from users that disable tracking. 

[mr moose]

5 hours ago, Crossbred said:

For sure. I think in the future I'm going to move my sensitive internet usage to a separate untracked machine, but for convenience's sake I don't mind tracking whatever I browse casually on my Android. I think the trade of convenience for data is fine in most cases as long as users have control over it, but in effect I think companies should be able to cut some (keyword: some) services from users that disable tracking. 

yep, there is a line between data collected to improve products in an honest manner, and data collected to on sell etc. 

[RejZoR]

And should still be controllable. If I want to help Google, Microsoft or Apple, fine, I can allow the telemetry and automatic feedback reporting. If I don't want to, users should be allowed to disable that entirely, not with crap like Microsoft or Google where you untick bunch of things and they basically disregard it entirely. That's just unacceptable.