The world would be a far better place if advertising were greatly restricted - not just because it's annoying and bad for privacy, but also because it's bad for economies. Advertising is why you could work hard at a career your whole life and make less money than Kim K would for farting into a walkie-talkie (or less theoretically, less money than Karl Lagerfeld's cat made for posing on car's dashboard), and it also fuels much of the IP industry's work-once-get-paid-forever business model. It should be restr
Not only that, but where the obvious issues are someone trying to sell me a product, there's also much much more insidious uses, as have been exploited on Facebook, where a users preferences can be used to funnel them news of dubious merit.
Previously I'd have largely ignored this and considered that it was up to the users to manage their own privacy... but I think given recent events, it's clear that there are a very large section of society who are very susceptible to such misuse/abuse of user tracking.
For this reason, things like this should be kicked to the kerb *and* we need laws to prevent people working around them - because they will otherwise.
Advertising should be greatly restricted (Score:5, Interesting)
The world would be a far better place if advertising were greatly restricted - not just because it's annoying and bad for privacy, but also because it's bad for economies. Advertising is why you could work hard at a career your whole life and make less money than Kim K would for farting into a walkie-talkie (or less theoretically, less money than Karl Lagerfeld's cat made for posing on car's dashboard), and it also fuels much of the IP industry's work-once-get-paid-forever business model. It should be restr
Re:Advertising should be greatly restricted (Score:2)
Previously I'd have largely ignored this and considered that it was up to the users to manage their own privacy... but I think given recent events, it's clear that there are a very large section of society who are very susceptible to such misuse/abuse of user tracking.
For this reason, things like this should be kicked to the kerb *and* we need laws to prevent people working around them - because they will otherwise.