Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it’s already been discussed!)
Would you support this? Would it work or even be viable? (If it could somehow overcome the rabid resistance from these big companies). What are your thoughts?
Personally, I’m getting more and more agitated at the state of this late stage global capitalism, where companies have the gall to ask you to pay or subscribe to their products, while they already make money from you for selling your data. It’s been an issue for a long time now, but seems to really be ramping up.
“By clicking here you agree to the terms of service [which expressly state that in exchange for receiving the service without charge or at discount rate, you wave any rights to royalties on any personal information collected]” or something to that effect.
As long as users willingly participate, the only way to solve this problem is to educate users about the dangers. It’s a very similar situation as cigarettes. Banning cigarettes doesn’t work because then users will just willingly circumvent the ban, possibly turning to black or grey markets.
I want you to go to whatever search engine you use and search “how long does it take to read terms and conditions” so you can see that reading them would take days.