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   frigginGlorious ✅ (frigginglorious@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 01:45:51 JST frigginGlorious ✅

   My company gave marching orders for me to check our apps and make sure our consent management platform was properly gating Kochava SDKs from loading.

   I never bothered checking why... but hot damn I just read the FTC press release.

   https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/08/ftc-sues-kochava-selling-data-tracks-people-reproductive-health-clinics-places-worship-other

   This is why we can't have nice things. And why I get paid for this BS.

   The folks who decided that internet content should be monetized with ads had no idea what a fucked up world they'd create.

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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 01:45:50 JST feld

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     > The folks who decided that internet content should be monetized with ads had no idea what a fucked up world they'd create.
     
     The users have created this mess because they want everything to be free. But everything has a cost.
     
     We have an opportunity to reshape the internet and still allow large, resource-intensive, complex services that users rely on every day to instead be funded by the users with internet-native micropayments, but people still haven't pulled their heads out of their asses on this.
     
     We cannot have it both ways. The internet cannot provide the services needed by billions of people with a fragmented indie/smallweb mindset.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:14:58 JST feld

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     > Yes. you're "internet native micropayments" idea sounds like some Web 3 shenanigans 😜 But I know exactly what you're talking about and I dig it!
     
     Everyone thinks that this has to mean that using the internet is going to be prohibitively expensive, but we have services with a billion users and at a penny a day per user they're pulling $10M a day or $3.5B a year which should be more than enough to run that service
     
     Ads can be more profitable because they're paying a crazy amount per user, but that VC money is drying up fast and hopefully we'll never see a bubble like that ever again
     
     The fastest way to fix the web is probably to force their hand by making ads as unprofitable as possible. Wipe out the entire industry. Make them pivot.
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     frigginGlorious ✅ (frigginglorious@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:14:59 JST frigginGlorious ✅

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     • feld

     @feld but anyway, things evolved as they did because there was no way to transfer money on the internet. By the time there was, it was too late!

     Yes. you're "internet native micropayments" idea sounds like some Web 3 shenanigans 😜 But I know exactly what you're talking about and I dig it!

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     frigginGlorious ✅ (frigginglorious@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 04:15:00 JST frigginGlorious ✅

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     @feld so there's this big organization called IAPP and they throw these big (comparatively) boring privacy conferences.

     At tech conferences, there's a presenter and they have a slide deck and their usually demoing or explaining something they think is neat.

     At priv conferences, it's all panels where 3-5 people are discussing court cases and BSing.

     Anyway. One panels topic was Future of privacy tech. At Q&A, I mentioned paying for privacy. I was looked at like I had 3 heads.