Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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submitted 2 years ago by yams@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Now I'm against ads like everyone else, but if a website needs ads to survive why not just use a system that doesn't violate user privacy? I understand it might be more efficient to track individuals however if one were to just use site/topic specific ads wouldn't that offer a degree of privacy? Idk please give me your opinion.

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[–] gcb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it WAS like that. ads were sold by demographics of readership.

then NSA and CIA got involved in big tech. i kid you not.

cloudflare was a project called honeypot to detect spam and bots. dept of homeland security director called the owner and suggested their data was valuable and they should start a company. the ceo tells the history in early interviews.

[–] altair222@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Source?

[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37348016

Scroll down a bit, it's under the subtitle "Federal interest".