Comment on So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want?
ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 1 week agoGive me all the ads you want but at least give me the option whether they’re personalised or not… Why is this now a paid choice? The companies get paid by the advertisers either way, right? I’m not expecting it for free but I don’t like thousands of unknown companies tracking me thank you very much.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They get paid more by the advertisers for delivering personalized ads.
ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Of course they do :/… Surely though, even with the previous free choice of general or personalised ads, I bet a decent few people still habitually clicked ‘accept all’, so I can’t imagine this making that much of a difference financially… And this way they’ll probably drive away some more privacy-savvy readers as well. Oh well, guess they wouldn’t be doing it if it didn’t pay off for them.