I find it infuriating how much traction this whole anti ad/tracking war is getting.
People mention there's no choice anymore. Wrong! It's still there, just like it was 10 or 15 years ago. Stop sharing your personal information online and the whole tracking thing doesn't matter anymore.
This analogy seems completely flawed imho. Nobody can get inside my home, or force my door or any of that nonsense, unless I specifically allow them when they ask!
I fail to understand how all these trackers can read my browsing history without me installing <popular plugin> and allowing it access to my browser? Or how are they going to read my contact list from my Android phone, or the one from my Thunderbird? Through thin air?
Nobody took the choice from us, we just happened to open wide our front and back doors, and then complain that random people come in and look through our stuff.
That you don't understand how it works even in the abstract is maybe an explanation for why you think it is infuriating that others are more concerned than you.
Being online is no longer optional, giving merchants and authorities your information is in many cases also no longer optional.
If you stop sharing your personal information online you will not be able to participate in a very large chunk of society's functions, some of which are mandatory. Heck I can't even the local tax office website without receiving a bunch of stuff that tracks me.
People mention there's no choice anymore. Wrong! It's still there, just like it was 10 or 15 years ago. Stop sharing your personal information online and the whole tracking thing doesn't matter anymore.
This analogy seems completely flawed imho. Nobody can get inside my home, or force my door or any of that nonsense, unless I specifically allow them when they ask!
I fail to understand how all these trackers can read my browsing history without me installing <popular plugin> and allowing it access to my browser? Or how are they going to read my contact list from my Android phone, or the one from my Thunderbird? Through thin air?
Nobody took the choice from us, we just happened to open wide our front and back doors, and then complain that random people come in and look through our stuff.