I sometimes think that no one cares about online privacy, which makes me really sad, then I read this from @pluralistic - good to know!
pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/rev…
So maybe people DO care, but just feel like they can't do much about it?
#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #datarape #tracking
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Patrick Leavy • •@Patrick Leavy @Cory Doctorow Wasn't Apple collecting that information themselves behind the scenes regardless of the setting?
Your point still stands though.
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Patrick Leavy
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Apple seem to be the best of a bad bunch, but in terms of 1st party data, they are certainly increasing their advertising side of their business, to appease shareholder demand for never-ending growth.
Cory Doctorow
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axby
in reply to Patrick Leavy • • •I enjoyed this article, and I didn't know this and found it interesting:
> ... the advertising industry has been repeating since the days when it was waging a massive campaign against the TV remote on the grounds that people would "steal" TV by changing the channel when the ads came on.
I'm not very familiar with life before cable TV, but it seems especially offensive since cable TV is both paid and has a ton of ads. I hope this was at least before paid TV...
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
in reply to axby • • •@axby
When I was a little boy, in the 1960s, an issue of MAD magazine showed how to splice an on-off switch on a long wire to the feed to your TV speaker. DIY ad mute button.
The article mentioned how smug you'll feel defeating a TV ad that took millions of dollars to make with a 15 cent switch.
mtconleyuk
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Per Nystrom
in reply to mtconleyuk • • •I believe it's no coincidence that the mute button is the only remote control function that is not reliably propagated through my HDMI setup. The TV will sometimes just show the flashing mute symbol, but the sound bar doesn't actually mute.
tova
in reply to Patrick Leavy • • •Patrick Leavy
in reply to tova • • •@mouszi yeah that apathy is really depressing. Where is the outrage?
Dave Eggers' book The Every is looking painfully accurate 😬😒
tova
in reply to Patrick Leavy • • •Patrick Leavy
in reply to tova • • •@mouszi you're right, #bigtech just rides it out, lobbies, and we begrudgingly accept a new norm. 😒
They are boiling the frog 🐸. What will it take to make us jump out of the pot?
Another Cambridge Analytica?
tova
in reply to Patrick Leavy • • •Patrick Leavy
in reply to tova • • •@mouszi but it will need a scandal otherwise the 'security services + big tech' will block it.
Or it takes a few people at regulatory bodies with REAL integrity.
Cory Doctorow wrote a great essay about how the Irish have been shamefully protecting big tech. As an Irishman myself that was hard to read, but it was a wake up call:
pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/fin…
Pluralistic: Ireland’s privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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