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Barely anyone cares about online privacy. MS found that out with the failed Scroogled campaign which they scrapped after it tanked. People value free stuff more

Barely anyone cares about online privacy. MS found that out with the failed Scroogled campaign which they scrapped after it tanked. People value free stuff more than privacy. There are some interesting court cases going on though, with the analogs of your scenario but with student data. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/01/uc-berkeley-students-sue-google-alleging-their-emails-were-illegally-scanned/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/0... http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.html http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.ht... https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks-students-internet-browsing-eff-says-complaint-federal-trade https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks...

wnevets 11y ago
>MS found that out with the failed Scroogled campaign which they scrapped after it tanked. it tanked because it was a terrible campaign not because people don't care about online privacy. The fact that it was MS all of companies running it made it even more terrible.
- ntakasaki 11y ago
  Do you think that if Mozilla ran a similar campaign it would see more success? Somehow I don't think so.
  - wnevets 11y ago
    Considering google was paying mozilla to be the default search engine in firefox, most tech savvy folks would of seen it just as silly.
- rasz_pl 11y ago
  actually that campaign was a full success - it made MS realize no one cares about privacy, this led to Win10 spying on _everything_
  - wnevets 11y ago
    > this led to Win10 spying on _everything_ and no one is complaining about that /s
pdkl95 11y ago
> Barely anyone cares about online privacy. I suspect you are confusing not caring about privacy with a feeling of powerlessness mixed with a general ignorance of any alternatives (which might not exist in some situations). The meme that people want to give up privacy in some kind of barter for services is just projection and wishful thinking in most cases. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/publications/tradeoff-fallacy-how-marketers-are-misrepresenting-american-consumers-and https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/publications/tradeoff-...

wnevets 11y ago

>MS found that out with the failed Scroogled campaign which they scrapped after it tanked. it tanked because it was a terrible campaign not because people don't care about online privacy. The fact that it was MS all of companies running it made it even more terrible.

ntakasaki 11y ago
Do you think that if Mozilla ran a similar campaign it would see more success? Somehow I don't think so.
- wnevets 11y ago
  Considering google was paying mozilla to be the default search engine in firefox, most tech savvy folks would of seen it just as silly.
rasz_pl 11y ago
actually that campaign was a full success - it made MS realize no one cares about privacy, this led to Win10 spying on _everything_
- wnevets 11y ago
  > this led to Win10 spying on _everything_ and no one is complaining about that /s

pdkl95 11y ago

> Barely anyone cares about online privacy. I suspect you are confusing not caring about privacy with a feeling of powerlessness mixed with a general ignorance of any alternatives (which might not exist in some situations). The meme that people want to give up privacy in some kind of barter for services is just projection and wishful thinking in most cases. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/publications/tradeoff-fallacy-how-marketers-are-misrepresenting-american-consumers-and https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/publications/tradeoff-...