I sometimes think that no one cares about online privacy, which makes me really sad, then I read this from @pluralistic - good to know!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve
So maybe people DO care, but just feel like they can't do much about it?
@patrickleavy @pluralistic I enjoyed this article, and I didn't know this and found it interesting:
> ... the advertising industry has been repeating since the days when it was waging a massive campaign against the TV remote on the grounds that people would "steal" TV by changing the channel when the ads came on.
I'm not very familiar with life before cable TV, but it seems especially offensive since cable TV is both paid and has a ton of ads. I hope this was at least before paid TV...
@axby @patrickleavy @pluralistic Reminds me of the absolute shitfit those same execs pitched with VCRs, and then DVRs...
The most entitled-sounding of these being Jack Valenti saying the VCR was like a home-invading rapist. I try to bring this up whenever I can, even though Valenti is long gone, because it's still ABSOLUTELY WILD that people trust industries whose execs talk this way.
@kmeisthax @axby @patrickleavy @pluralistic I'm still convinced Windows Media Center was killed after Windows 8 because of corporate interests being mad at an easy to use computer based PVR
The arms race between marketers and ad busters has so many chapters....
Heck I still have a VCR from the 1990s that had commercial skip technology. It was genius tech for its time: it would mark commercials on a live show recording and when you watched it auto-skip them.
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