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  • neo@lemy.loltomemes@lemmy.world•Time to move
    14·
    6 months ago

    You’re making that up, right?
    This is from an 80s movie about a distopian future (like RoboCop or Total Recall), right!?

    I mean, do you stop at red lights in that situation? You probably have to… Do you keep the speed limit and have some small talk with the guy fighting for his life, while you sit in traffic?

  • neo@lemy.loltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising
    6·
    6 months ago

    Basically I see two options:

    1. This works for advertisers and based on your “profile” you are strongly influenced by the ads shown to you. So might just as well give your data to Meta and Google, who already sell profiled (and not individualised) ads.

    2. This doesn’t work for advertisers and you are not strongly influence by the ads shown to you. So the advertisers could just as well put a link somewhere and hope it is found by their target audience.

    Also I don’t my browser, my OS or any other core component on my system to be in bed with people who are trying to extract as much money as possible from me.

  • neo@lemy.loltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising
    14·
    6 months ago

    There are radio stations, financed through ads. And they check if people are listening by calling random persons to ask them what station they are listening to.

    So this is a viable business model and nobody is stopping anybody from putting plain pictures and links on sites and just estimate the page visits, but online advertisers want to know more. They always want more.

    At the same time, a browser is the essential software to browse the web. So this is as if your TV was like:

    Yo, many people mute their TV during commercials and don’t pay attention, which kills the poor networks. So I made a deal with advertisers and will check what your doing, while I provide unmutable ads , but don’t worry, your privacy is very important to us and we only care about providing to you the best TV experience possible.