Not really. Online publishers think that surveillance is free money, so they're always happy to add more. Savvy users block it all. Some day there will be a reckoning.
I think we need to force the reckoning to the forefront, for the sake of the unsavvy. This affects us all, and we need to get out in front of it, before it bulldozes everything.
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Somewhat off topic, but anyone else think it's kinda weird that an article about data privacy has so many third party tracking scripts?
I know it's sitewide on every article from the mothership, Gizmodo, but still...
Not really. Online publishers think that surveillance is free money, so they're always happy to add more. Savvy users block it all. Some day there will be a reckoning.
I think we need to force the reckoning to the forefront, for the sake of the unsavvy. This affects us all, and we need to get out in front of it, before it bulldozes everything.
If it hasn't already.
The article is about the tradeoff. the website makes tradeoffs