@jbhall56 there's a simple solution to the proliferation od commercial data brokers selling your personal information:
1) acknowledge that your personal information is your property. This is just common sense..
2) impose an automatic mechanical royalty of not less than 70% of gross revenue for any company selling your information.
3) any entity that doesn't pay your royalty is guilty of trafficking stolen property, and liable for all the associated penalties.
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Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 02:56:59 JST Howard Chu @ Symas - feld repeated this.
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Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 02:56:58 JST Howard Chu @ Symas @jbhall56 the 70/30 split is justifiable since the owner is the actual creator of the product. If one broker can't make sufficient profit from selling your data, some other one will. Free market at its best.
Likewise, if you want to display ads on my computer, then you must pay me for the network bandwidth, memory, and CPU time consumed in delivering and displaying your ad on my systems. You've all been using my compute resources for free, that has to end.
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feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 02:58:07 JST feld @hyc @jbhall56 > Likewise, if you want to display ads on my computer, then you must pay me for the network bandwidth, memory, and CPU time consumed in delivering and displaying your ad on my systems. You've all been using my compute resources for free, that has to end.
I've been preaching this as well. This is straight up *theft*. I wish we had some way to know the amount of data and number of requests that are behind every link so we could determine if we wish to open them, but that's impossible... -
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tedu (tedu@honk.tedunangst.com)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 04:08:21 JST tedu @feld uhm, your user agent voluntarily downloaded those files. Short of a browser exploit, nobody is forced to do anything. Your agent chose to download a file of instructions, it chose to run those instructions, it chose to download more files, it chose to render the result.
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feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 04:08:21 JST feld @tedu right, but you click a link to get to the *content* it purportedly contains and you have no clue what evil lurks behind that link which you do not consent to. There is no mechanism to even prompt for your consent of whether or not you agree to load and process certain elements hosted at the origin or 3rd party.
You really get no control once you click a link. It sucks.