You can't keep companies from spying on you by asking them to "pretty please stop". DNT had the same problem.
The banners aren't even the real problem here, it's the surveillance of users.
We either create strong regulations with teeth and enforcement that make it prohibitively costly for companies to spy on people, or we're left with a technological game of cat and mouse where users have to protect themselves as well as they can by not trusting adversarial companies to play nice and limiting what data they make available in the first place. I'd prefer a mix of both.
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You can't keep companies from spying on you by asking them to "pretty please stop". DNT had the same problem.
The banners aren't even the real problem here, it's the surveillance of users.
We either create strong regulations with teeth and enforcement that make it prohibitively costly for companies to spy on people, or we're left with a technological game of cat and mouse where users have to protect themselves as well as they can by not trusting adversarial companies to play nice and limiting what data they make available in the first place. I'd prefer a mix of both.