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.
If they had my consent, then yes, i would agree.
But i would like there to be an option to opt out of sharing my data.
There is. That option is not using their services.
I’m not a big fan of the data selling, or the creepy collection methods, but expecting everything to be free without ads or data collection is unreasonable.
How much would you be willing to pay for each “free” online service you use if they offered a monetary alternative to data collection? Probably not enough to keep them in business for very long.