Off Topic Chit Chat - (Silliness factor 5)

[Fenris]

@Kayo

Basically, Google is saying pretty much saying “why only use traditional cookies if you have nasty cross-platform fingerprinting?” Ya, pretty nasty.

You know what is really impressive to me is if targeting advertising is really an issue with most of this, why can’t we give the advertisers the finger print? Why should people have to step into that?

Same goes with digital ID being sold to the public. Well we need digital ID to know who is real and who is AI, or to know what real human made content is and AI made content… Which, ultimately leads to needing a digital ID just to step on the internet. If your serious about this, then why shouldn’t AI be forced to identify itself to us and not us to the system?

You know this article brings some interesting philosophies to the surface that I never thought of before…

The real problem with the cookie banners was never the banners themselves, but the incorrect implementation, which led to users agreeing to the tracking, although they did not want to. That is also the reason why we said all the time that targeted advertising must be prohibited - regardless of the tracking method. If targeted advertising has to stop, tracking no longer makes sense.

I personally don’t believe that prohibition is the answer to really anything. Steve Jobs has really proven that a solution to prohibition is competition. I also understand that people in Europe would disagree with that, and that is fine. I guess what I think a fair solution is, the ability to opt out of targeting advertising should be a clear choice to the user and not just outright banned.

I have personally benefited from targeting advertising in the past when it comes to knowing what engineering products used in instrumentation and electronic circuit design. It has been helpful, but on the other hand, how did the system get that information in the first place? The ability to opt out wasn’t available to simply say no to. Some people people may not have a problem with this, should we remove the choice from them? Is a one size fits all solution really the answer here? If you remove this, are we in fact no better then the advertisers who don’t have bad intent? What about there choices to make products available to the public? Some people may actually want to be targeting for the latest and greatest products (I can’t imagine why, but there are those kinds of people out in the world)

What we need is the ability to disconnect from it, how you implement that solution beats me. Also one of the biggest problems with targeted ads is the ability to change a human beings perceptions. Not everyone in the world has the critical thinking skills or intellectual capacity to be aware or understand how information is precieved and this also has to be known as one of the options.