Cookies aren’t nearly the only form of tracking.
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transigence@kbin.social 1 year agoWhy do you need a GDPR to protect you? If you don't want tracking cookies then don't let web sites write them to your computer. You are in charge of your computer.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Wish it was that simple. The problem with the internet, as a whole, is someone figured out they can collect just about everything from your data, with or without cookies, and sell it to big companies.
Everything is about that almighty dollar. We are now the product under the guise of being a customer.
You want to complain about access being blocked because of where you live, fine just makes you an easy commodity to sell to someone else.
Tbf, you want complete anonymity, stay off the web, don’t use bank accounts or credit cards, not even those like cash app, become a hermit and tell everyone to fuck off as you are not for sale.
In reality, it’s policies, like the GDPR, that are actually looking out for your best interest. Here in America the arguement would be “they’re taking away my freedom” or “the government is overreaching” instead of “Hey, someone actually cares about my privacy in the government!”
Like I have said in another group, people complain about their privacy online and then use the likes of chrome for their browser. We say we care about our privacy, but in the end we are a tool that doesn’t do the job we need done.
transigence@kbin.social 1 year ago
The thing is, if someone makes observations about you, and save that in the form of data, that's not your data. It's their data. It might be about you, but people are allowed to observe and sell their observations.
Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
This is true. However, they need to inform you that they are collecting this data, what data they are collecting, and why, and give you the option to opt out of that data collection.
Just because they can doesn’t give them the right to do so without your explicit permission.
transigence@kbin.social 1 year ago
Why? I'm allowed to stand at a street corner and watch people walk by. I'm allowed to count them, and observe the direction they're going. I don't need any of their permission to do this. I'm allowed to know who they are, and I'm allowed to tell anyone I want what I saw. I'm allowed to charge money for it, and none of the people I observe are a party to this at all, so why should I need to either not do this, or tell them what I'm doing or ask for their permission to remember what I saw? How is internet tracking different?