Let's be honest here. Imagine I hate $minority. For no reason whatsoever, I just don't like $minority, I don't want to sell anything to $minority and I don't want to deal with $minority.
What do you think would change if I could not avoid advertising to $minority? That I suddenly start selling to them? Especially in a market like real estate where I pretty much HAVE TO know who I sell or let to. The ONLY thing that changes is that I don't go on $minority's nerves with my damn ads and that I don't waste their time.
In other words, if I happen to be part of a minority you don't want to deal with, I do not WANT your damn ads. First, because they're ads, but more importantly, because I in turn don't want to deal with an asshole.
People in dictatorships are usually very sensitive to anything spying on them. Something like Farcebook would have never flied in Soviet Russia. People were too used to their private information being used against them.
The US simply had no history of that. But we're gonna catch up soon to the former East Bloc.
I think it's time for a "tracking cookie mix and match" addon. Every time you start your browser, you get a new tracking cookie from a pool of participating people that originally belonged to someone else. After a couple minutes you return the cookie to the pool and get a new one from someone else, while yours goes to some other person.
What this eventually does is invalidate and thus poison the cookie data. Unless Google finds a way to voluntarily eliminate these cookies from their data mining, their whole data pool is useless. Which is basically all we want. Either they have to throw the cookies away that they use to track us, or they have to throw all tracking cookies away.
Force them. There is a billion webpages out there delivering the same content this one is delivering. You don't play nice with my browser and its settings?
But if it's on by default and users start to complain about sites not working, sites have to find a new way to deliver their content to browsers that don't just jump through their hoops.
Hell, web designers made whole websites for IE6, this is a breeze compared to that bullshit!
The problem is that we may have known for a long time what kind of data mill FB is, but you would be surprised to how many this was anything but obvious. Yes, they collect data, people know that, but most people think the only data FB collects (and can collect) is the data you hand over freely. And even that isn't really present for most people using it. "I have nothing to hide" is still in many peoples' heads.
This might well be an eye opener to some people who get to see just HOW deep the rabbit hole goes. And only when they notice what kind of privacy infraction this data collector is, they might start being fed up with it.
It's not only Facebook. But you should start somewhere. Al Capone also wasn't the only crook in Chicago, but it's sensible to start with the biggest criminal.
This is actually a better idea than you might think. For some people it's a coin toss between Chrome and Firefox, not being able to be tracked by Google may well be a decider for many, and I somewhat doubt that Chrome would support something like that out of the box.
I agree. I'm quite convinced his motivation was to geek out and pull a stunt like this, with the "flat earth proof" as a hook to get the dupes to pay for it.
Don't get me wrong, I celebrate this. Actually, both of these things.
You have discovered the "good enough" problem. At some point in development of pretty much anything, you hit the 80/20 barrier where improvement becomes prohibitively expensive, to the point where it is economically unfeasible. The Concorde was one of those 20% that are unfeasible. Hence it vanished.
You will notice that most of the technology you mention has been around for much longer than computers. Cars, houses, clothing, buildings, even planes. The computer, with integrated circuits, is less than 50 years old. The first halfway affordable graphical interface came 40 years ago. Windows 95 was just over 20 years ago. And hardware supported 3D processing in mainstream computing is barely 20 years old.
And remember that it always takes at least 3-5 years for a technology to take over and replace its predecessor to a point where development focusing on the new technology becomes economically feasible.
Now think back to when the technologies you mentioned were 20 years old. Was there room for improvement? Hell, there was even a lot of room for improvement 50 years after their first appearance.
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Big difference. With the mafia, you don't get to choose between the two biggest crooks for the position of the don.
Let's be honest here. Imagine I hate $minority. For no reason whatsoever, I just don't like $minority, I don't want to sell anything to $minority and I don't want to deal with $minority.
What do you think would change if I could not avoid advertising to $minority? That I suddenly start selling to them? Especially in a market like real estate where I pretty much HAVE TO know who I sell or let to. The ONLY thing that changes is that I don't go on $minority's nerves with my damn ads and that I don't waste their time.
In other words, if I happen to be part of a minority you don't want to deal with, I do not WANT your damn ads. First, because they're ads, but more importantly, because I in turn don't want to deal with an asshole.
Probably longer than if you create one that allows you to share music.
Hmm. Apparently it didn't catch on, maybe if they had made it an automatic-on feature it would?
Because it was a hassle. Since this would be fully automatic with you having to do nothing (after installing it once), it's way more convenient.
The choice is really only between having state-sponsored news only and being flooded by fake news?
Really?
What makes you think this isn't already the plan?
Well... yeah. Welcome to capitalism, comrade.
Umm... nope. Facebook is overrun by people that didn't grow up at all and believe anything they see and fits their preferred world view.
People in dictatorships are usually very sensitive to anything spying on them. Something like Farcebook would have never flied in Soviet Russia. People were too used to their private information being used against them.
The US simply had no history of that. But we're gonna catch up soon to the former East Bloc.
And of course we will delete it. Honestly. We will. This time, for sure, we will. Promised.
I think it's time for a "tracking cookie mix and match" addon. Every time you start your browser, you get a new tracking cookie from a pool of participating people that originally belonged to someone else. After a couple minutes you return the cookie to the pool and get a new one from someone else, while yours goes to some other person.
What this eventually does is invalidate and thus poison the cookie data. Unless Google finds a way to voluntarily eliminate these cookies from their data mining, their whole data pool is useless. Which is basically all we want. Either they have to throw the cookies away that they use to track us, or they have to throw all tracking cookies away.
Either is fine by me.
Force them. There is a billion webpages out there delivering the same content this one is delivering. You don't play nice with my browser and its settings?
NEXT!
But if it's on by default and users start to complain about sites not working, sites have to find a new way to deliver their content to browsers that don't just jump through their hoops.
Hell, web designers made whole websites for IE6, this is a breeze compared to that bullshit!
Then I guess it's time they start working around that limitation.
I don't know for sure, but I'm kinda certain it has something to do with getting something for free or videos of cute kittens.
The problem is that we may have known for a long time what kind of data mill FB is, but you would be surprised to how many this was anything but obvious. Yes, they collect data, people know that, but most people think the only data FB collects (and can collect) is the data you hand over freely. And even that isn't really present for most people using it. "I have nothing to hide" is still in many peoples' heads.
This might well be an eye opener to some people who get to see just HOW deep the rabbit hole goes. And only when they notice what kind of privacy infraction this data collector is, they might start being fed up with it.
Why does everything have to be about the annoying orange? It may surprise you, but most of the planet doesn't really revolve around that goofball.
It's not only Facebook. But you should start somewhere. Al Capone also wasn't the only crook in Chicago, but it's sensible to start with the biggest criminal.
This is actually a better idea than you might think. For some people it's a coin toss between Chrome and Firefox, not being able to be tracked by Google may well be a decider for many, and I somewhat doubt that Chrome would support something like that out of the box.
Different countries employ different technologies to deal with people that can't follow rules...
I agree. I'm quite convinced his motivation was to geek out and pull a stunt like this, with the "flat earth proof" as a hook to get the dupes to pay for it.
Don't get me wrong, I celebrate this. Actually, both of these things.
If that was the reason, the water cooler in the office would have been a better candidate. And I mean compared to both of them.
And who do you think should run corporations if you prematurely abort all future CEOs?
You have discovered the "good enough" problem. At some point in development of pretty much anything, you hit the 80/20 barrier where improvement becomes prohibitively expensive, to the point where it is economically unfeasible. The Concorde was one of those 20% that are unfeasible. Hence it vanished.
You will notice that most of the technology you mention has been around for much longer than computers. Cars, houses, clothing, buildings, even planes. The computer, with integrated circuits, is less than 50 years old. The first halfway affordable graphical interface came 40 years ago. Windows 95 was just over 20 years ago. And hardware supported 3D processing in mainstream computing is barely 20 years old.
And remember that it always takes at least 3-5 years for a technology to take over and replace its predecessor to a point where development focusing on the new technology becomes economically feasible.
Now think back to when the technologies you mentioned were 20 years old. Was there room for improvement? Hell, there was even a lot of room for improvement 50 years after their first appearance.