• iain@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    No, just ban the collection of user data and selling to 3rd parties. Enormous fines for anyone still doing it. Destroy this entire industry please.

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      10 months ago

      The EU is primarily pro-business, but that also means being against anti-competitive and underhanded business practices

      The browser thing sounds like a good solution (although there must be a reason why DNT headers weren’t made legally binding, potentially as they wanted to allow people to pick and choose what cookies they allow based on what they thought was “too far” or something but that’s conjecture), however disallowing all user data will likely lead to companies not being able to advertise to people who are interested in their products, something which the EU will see as a negative and would also cause an uptick in scams and misinformation as you see in low quality advertising space at the moment

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        10 months ago

        This comment got to me really late, probably to Lemmy’s distributed nature.

        But I still want to add: of course business will make more money if you allow more practices, but selling personal data just has too many negative consequences.

        Also low quality advertising? You mean like billboards and in the newspaper? You mean regular advertising?

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          10 months ago

          I mean “[local town] grandma discovers 10 foods you never knew you should avoid” or even downright scams when I say low quality advertising

          Also “negative consequences” is a bit overdramatic and I’d love you to elaborate… Really it’s down to the person’s own opinion, eg you don’t like it so you’ll reject that sort of thing, meanwhile I don’t mind it especially as a way of paying for decent quality media so I’ll allow it on some sites but not others