@bratling @simonbs @gruber Because it's kind of important to track people's sign up flows and understand what they're doing? Or run targeted ads to actually fund the newspaper?

It's not like they're running a personal blog here.

@yury_mol @bratling @simonbs @gruber you don't automatically charge someone's credit card when they visit your website, so why would automatically tracking them be okay?

It's not because we got used to it that it was a good business model.

@xavez @bratling @simonbs @gruber Arguing via parallels is bad faith because people always construct a situation where their argument wins.

Tracking is OK. Show me any example of harm experienced by anyone involved. For the fact they’re getting content and services for free.

@yury_mol @xavez @bratling @simonbs @gruber

If you let people do what they want ... guess what? They do what they want. Narcissistic ShittyPeople have a heyday.

The effect on UK is profound. Was it just Cambridge Analytica? It only took 2% to change the outcome.

E.G.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

@gsymon @xavez @bratling @simonbs @gruber I don't understand what your point is. Also, the entire Cambridge Analytica debacle was a sham that didn't mean to anything.

1. People wanted Facebook to be more open, it closed down as a response to this.
2. Now only Facebook itself processes your data.
3. The data those "scientists" collected was useless for pretty much anything, as confirmed by the UK itself later. But it caused a large scandal and became a scapegoat for years.