alozuldo Jan 29, 2024
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Many of the ills of today’s internet have a single thing in common: they are built on a system of corporate surveillance. This Data Privacy & Protection Day, we're calling for a ban on the targeting of ads based on our online behavior. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/ban-online-behavioral-advertising
Ban Online Behavioral Advertising

Tech companies earn staggering profits by targeting ads to us based on our online behavior. This incentivizes all online actors to collect as much of our behavioral information as possible, and then sell it to ad tech companies and the data brokers that service them. This pervasive online...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jan 29, 2024 at 2:46amWeb
Show threadVegOSJan 29, 2024
@eff The concept of "smart phone" with its services too is not based on transperency, privacy or self determination. You have to root this shit, to see where settings are store or to throw Google out. But folks are used to it and yelling for. That's capitalism an his conditioned consumers.
Show threadSeriousity the Wolf🐺Jan 29, 2024

@eff

I have seen influencer's advertising betterhelp for helping people with mental illness and selling info to advertisers.

maybe this is applicable to online activity too, by the user's posting their day or like that.

Show threadxs4me2Jan 29, 2024

@eff

To be able to make money on top of services.

Show threadfelizJan 29, 2024
@eff