Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Now i have to pay to avoid being tracked? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This has to be against some kind of law right?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I mean, if you don't want to participate in the advertisement based monetization model, which you shouldn't, then the alternative to it is a subscription model.

these sites aren't free. we have the right to block advertising content and trackers on our browsers but that doesn't mean we have the right to block advertising while retaining no payment access.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Err, this payment doesn't block ads. It only switches off personalised ads. So, the user is still seeing ads, just not targeted ones. So the site is getting both user's money plus ad money. And technically, I am not sure how privacy preserving this is because you will still need to create an account which technically leaves you vulnerable to tracking.

[–] Cethin 2 points 1 month ago

Yep. I wish more services asked for a nominal fee and just skipped the ads and data harvesting. They don't make much per user anyway, so just let us pay the few cents directly and skip the bullshit.