BeyondMachines 
Short story about the death of #privacy
Pyperkub@beyondmachines1 nah, I'm blaming it on surveillance capitalism and #enshittification - there has always been a market for good, paid for software, as long as the market isn't being undercut by crappy, surveillance software.
Ben Sizer@pyperkub @beyondmachines1 Surveillance capitalism is a symptom rather than a cause. Think IE vs Netscape, or nobody paying for WinRAR. Ads just allowed this to blossom further.
@kylotan @pyperkub Ads were the, for lack of a better word - an almost honest exchange. You get a product, they send you ads in the UI.
Greed and massive scale processing turned random ads into tracking of digital and physical identities and near-perfect psychographic profiling.
And the googles and facebooks of the world now spin that tracking is ok because
@beyondmachines1 @pyperkub Don’t get me wrong, I agree that surveillance capitalism is awful. But I think that ads can’t be a truly honest exchange because the user never knows the price.
@kylotan @beyondmachines1 Well, the elephant in the room is that for decades, the user absolutely knew the price - a bit of their attention - whether it was a commercial or print ad. The lack of price transparency is a recent "innovation" coupled with the surveillance business (and gossip about others was also a 'business' but now it goes to 11 (thousand)
@pyperkub @beyondmachines1 True, so let me reword to be more accurate - the user knew the price, but they never knew the true cost of the service. Ad-funded models hide that from them and make it harder for businesses to compete with models other than advertising.