Post AXxf8R6ZJsXaOPt2Ey by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
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 (DIR) Post #AXxf8R6ZJsXaOPt2Ey by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
       2023-07-22T08:53:45Z
       
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       I have no opinion on the technical feasibility of “web environment integrity” but the weaselly justifications of it are offputting enough in themselves.“Users want advertisers to know that they are real humans” — no, *advertisers* want to know that users are real humans. But nobody would find that persuasive because everyone rightly hates ads on the web, so it's clumsily reframed as being in the user's interests.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXxf8UVUffGEwaZU0W by benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
       2023-07-22T08:57:57Z
       
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       Similarly, “existing ways of verifying user identity can be used to track users without their knowledge or control” — well, yes, but who's doing this? Advertising companies, including Google! This is a problem entirely of your own creation. You could simply … stop tracking people! But you don't want to.And will this mean tracking of users stops? No, of course not. All the other reasons that tracking happens will still apply, because this doesn't address any of them (and isn't intended to).
       
 (DIR) Post #AXy1OGj9rw7xpetK4G by ian@mckellar.social
       2023-07-22T23:00:16Z
       
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       @benjamineskola I'm quite fond of much of the free stuff on the Internet that's ad supported. Sometimes I can pay to make the ads go away (eg: YouTube premium) but I'm glad this stuff is available to people who can't afford that.