What if we just don't track people? Crazy idea, I know...
close04•20m ago
Someone in the ad industry will tell you that the internet is powered by ad revenue, it's what keeps it free and open, what makes services better.
fragmede•17m ago
I'm not in the advertising business, but people want free shit and don't want to pay for it. How do you suggest it get paid for if not advertising?
ehnto•5m ago
There are other business models, it depends on what you're building. For a while almost everything coming out of SV was destined to be advertising real estate. Now I think there's more interesting businesses going on. We'll keep strip mining attention to push plastic trinkets into container ships, certainly. Probably no stopping that.
ptx•10m ago
Next up: Stabbing people without a knife.
If you are tracking people without a lawful basis (e.g. consent), you are violating the GDPR. It doesn't matter if you use cookies. (The article does mention this towards the end.)
voidUpdate•38m ago
close04•20m ago
fragmede•17m ago
ehnto•5m ago