'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy - noyb
'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy
Privacy is not paid for. Privacy is taken. it is something that only you can achieve for yourself. paying ransom money will do little
Even if you pay them, your privacy is gone. Any part of you placed in someone else's hands makes privacy a joke
Now they got ya financial info! Even less privacy!
For true
I misread pay as gay and I thought this thread was going to get spicy
Is € 251.88 the estimated loss in revenue? I would like to say that it only makes sense if you assume the user will be on the platform either way, instead of just not paying and leaving. However, my experience with others makes me believe they will take whatever option to get to what they want.
I think it's a situation for policy but, at least here in the US, our policy makers aren't in the ethical or learned position to be effective.
What I'm saying is, the boat has holes and I'm concerned.
Nope they make a bit more.
First article that came up in DDG from 2022: https://www.techadvisor.com/article/745709/this-is-how-much-money-facebook-earns-from-your-data-each-year.html
The reason is because your country doesn't have a GDPR
The main reason is because the vast majority of people do not care or lack foresight of where that trend has been taking us for over 17 years. Surely you have friends or family who do not care. I do.
Didn't read article: check
Mindless shitting on America: check
All we're missing is all rich people are bad!" And we would have hit the Lemmy trifecta.
Needs more pihole.
Just avoid using them. Expecting free services without giving out anything is naive.
I'm fine with this trend.
Servers aren't free and engineers aren't cheap. Online products need to make money in our world.
If you're not paying them they need something to sell to someone else.
You are naive if you think paying them prevents them from getting more payments by selling your data wherever they can get away with tricking you into consent.
Problem is that some companies double dip. Pay for the service and have your data sold.
Or it's a FOSS solution.
Whenever I see FOSS offered as a solution I have to wonder if that person is paying for their own food, shelter, transportation and what have you, or if they are still living with their parents and not making any attempt to support themselves.
Nothing is free. There is a cost incurred at some point. The minimum cost is time, a finite commodity for all living beings, and effort, but other things require materials, which cost someone some time and effort to find, extract, or otherwise produce.
I certainly don't say any of this in defense of capitalism, but "free" is a nonsense concept in human life. It simply doesn't exist.
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Yeah, lemmy is insanely illogical on this topic. Services cost money to run, and the average user is not going to self host anytime in the foreseeable future. I have yet to hear anybody offer a vision of how things might reasonably work without ads OR subscriptions.
They can just fuck off
My biggest concern is they will hold your data hostage if you don't pay or try to leave.
Also, how can we be assured the privacy practices of their subscription/payment platform are at least better than the (likely blockable) trackers?
Forming a financial relationship with a website is, theoretically, infinitely more traceable to your personal identity than all the cookies in the world.
My bank would probably tell everyone before they did.
Can't do that in the EU (thank you GDPR).
Im in the US. The law dose not apply to businesses who can pay bribes.
Sadly, they are doing it in spain, the judges recently stated that they can do it, and few days later almost all of the spanish newspappers had it.
but they do this here anyway, at least in germany