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Kurt OpsahlOne cannot simultaneously value my privacy and share every detail of my visit to a website, down to the &#%* screen size, with 1505 partners.
OpsokkebaljeHahaha! Some 'values'!
your auntifa liza đľđˇ đŚ đŚŚ@Kurt what hellscape site is that?!?!
@blogdiva simpleflying.com. Seems to be a SEO site designed to be a result for aircraft related searches.
Luis Villa@Kurt kudos, though, to whatever subversive product manager snuck "show the exact count of recipients" into an enterprise privacy tool - I've seen several variations on this abomination lately.
Marc@luis_in_brief @Kurt I guess the count exists because someone thought itâs mandatory in some jurisdiction. Itâs probably as high on many other sites, but they donât fell the need to inform you about it. What an age we live in.
Sami Lehtinen@sl itâs my current high water mark, and I hope itâs the peak. But wouldnât bet on that.
Matt Blaze@Kurt "We value your privacy". They value it, package it, and monetize it.
@mattblaze Right, right. I was optimistically reading âvalueâ like privacy was some sort of intangible human right, without truly appreciating the potential value from the tens of cents they might gets if I click an ad and make a verifiable purchase over a certain minimum.
LPS@Kurt they mean that literally, it's valuable to them;)
đ Dave No One đ @Kurt The âvalueâ your privacy in monetary terms.
Aral Balkan@Kurt What can I say, surveillance capitalism is a heckuva drug.
Mark A Lemley@Kurt It's quite obvious they value your privacy! Just look how much money they're getting for it
Quinn9282 đĽď¸đâď¸@Kurt There really needs to be an option in web browsers to just automatically reject any "privacy choices" pop-ups or something. There are browsers out there that automatically block cookies, trackers, ads, etc. themselves, but I wonder if it would be possible to have an option to force reject those "privacy choice" pop-ups from the web browser itself, assuming something like that is actually possible.
Harris McCullers@Quinn9282 @Kurt There is! https://globalprivacycontrol.org/
Most places itâs just an opt in, so lots of sites wonât pay attention to it. But if youâre in California then youâre in luck since itâs a legal requirement in the CCPA that sites respect that signal.
Aphrodite (recharging)@Kurt your privacy is valued at about $0.002.
does that help clarify?
Mark Loundy@Kurt @dangillmor Of course they value your privacy. That value is the amount for which they are selling it to the highest bidder.
Zane Selvans@Kurt It sounds like they know exactly what the value of your privacy is and they're cashing it in for all it's worth!
extraneous@Kurt Sorry, we can't answer your call for 15 minutes because we want to trouser the money rather than employ enough people but your call is important to us!
Steve Grunwell@Kurt they can still value your privacy, they just value at least 1505 other things *more* đ
rholland_again-again@Kurt Not sure what you mean. Of course they value your privacy. You simply disagree on the price.
TracingVRL by A.J. Fish@Kurt On my birthday last year I noticed the day of (which I shall not specify here) that birthday balloons drifted across my screen every time I was doing a Google search/checking gmail. đŹ
David B@Kurt they have placed a monetary value on your privacy
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Honeydew@Kurt theyâre valuing your privacy at about 50 cents of their ad revenueâŚ
TomĂĄĹĄ@Kurt well, the value is clearly high, if they can sell it đ¤ˇ
Derek Martin@Kurt it's kind of impressive they identify how many partners they're selling you too - that's a neat new something!
syaochan@Kurt it seems their polycule is getting out of hand /j
Kelvin n0mql EN35ldToday I saw a cookie pop up, which I clicked on in order to reject all the cookies I could reject.
There was no way to reject any. Only an explanation that they only use cookies to improve my browsing experience.
And, sure, there are some things you can do with cookies to improve one's browsing experience a bit. But that's not what they really mean. That's never what they really mean.