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Legal: “it’s forbidden to target ads at specific users” Done.
by talkin 2y ago
Legal: “it’s forbidden to target ads at specific users”
Done.
- berkes 2y agoSounds reasonable. But I highly doubt it removes the want for private data, though. Tracking is also there to measure performance, do AB tests, etc etc. I'm sure such a broad sweeping law would solve some. But it won't make the ad industry suddenly "good" or go away, or get purged or such.
- SebastianKra 2y agoMy perfect world would have a law against advertising in general. If someone's paying you to say something, it's a conflict of interest and illegal. Hopefully, the vacuum of people needing to know things would result in better independent Product reviews. And the vacuum of not spending 30% of your company budget on advertising would hopefully lead to sinking prices and people being more willing to spend on things that were previously funded by advertising.
- _heimdall 2y ago> If someone's paying you to say something, it's a conflict of interest and illegal. That already misses a huge problem though, I don't pay Mozilla for Firefox and I don't pay most online sites and services that gobble up my data and sell it off.
- robin_reala 2y agoMozilla has never given us a choice to pay for Firefox.
- _heimdall 2y agoSure, but I don't think that really changes anything here. The idea of a law that bans advertising when the customer pays you would miss a huge portion of advertising and data collection including Firefox.
- SebastianKra 2y agoThat's what my third paragraph was for.
- _heimdall 2y agoIs the concern you want fixed only that paid products still collect and sell data? I may have misunderstood you, but my read on the third paragraph was mainly that Firefox, in this case, could still have a free browser that collects and sells data. That rule would just add one more fsctor for them to consider if they ever want a paid browser, they both need a viable market and be willing to give up the option to sell data.