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Yellow Flag: "Privacy on the web is fundamentally broken, for at least 90% of the population. Advertising on the web is fundamentally broken, for at least 90% of the population…" - Infosec Exchange (infosec.exchange)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The founder of AdBlock Plus weighs in on PPA:

Privacy on the web is fundamentally broken, for at least 90% of the population. Advertising on the web is fundamentally broken, for at least 90% of the population.

Yet any attempt to improve this situation is met with fierce resistance by the lucky 10% who know how to navigate their way around the falltraps. Because the internet shouldn’t have tracking! The internet shouldn’t have ads! And any step towards a compromise is a capital offense. I mean, if it slightly benefits the advertisers as well, then it must be evil.

It seems that no solution short of eliminating tracking and advertising on the web altogether is going to be accepted. That we live with an ad-supported web and that fact of life cannot be wished away or change overnight – who cares?

And every attempt to improve the status quo even marginally inevitably fails. So the horribly broken state we have today prevails.

This is so frustrating. I’m just happy I no longer have anything to do with that…

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We're not the target audience because we use uBlock. This is about the general user.

Regarding subscriptions and donations, I recently brought it up here: https://lazysoci.al/post/14704065

But if we essentially paywall the Internet, there will be a lot of people left behind, as most can't afford to donate or subscribe.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

there will be a lot of people left behind, as most can't afford to donate or subscribe.

They do fall behind either way. If you can't afford it, your privacy is exploited and you pay by being targeted by ads (if you don't know your ways around it).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know that's not the same thing. Come on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Neither solution is fair for some people. Being tempted into using your privacy as a currency, because you don't have much money shouldn't even be an option.

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