Privacy on the web is fundamentally broken, for at least 90% of the population. Advertising on the web is fundamentally broken, for at least 90% of the population.
Yet any attempt to improve this situation is met with fierce resistance by the lucky 10% who know how to navigate their way around the falltraps. Because the internet shouldn’t have tracking! The internet shouldn’t have ads! And any step towards a compromise is a capital offense. I mean, if it slightly benefits the advertisers as well, then it must be evil.
It seems that no solution short of eliminating tracking and advertising on the web altogether is going to be accepted. That we live with an ad-supported web and that fact of life cannot be wished away – who cares?
And every attempt to improve the status quo even marginally inevitably fails. And the horribly broken state we have today prevails.
This is so frustrating. I’m just happy I no longer have anything to do with that…
I think that “I don’t believe they can make this work” is the most ridiculous argument in this context. Like, why don’t we just let them try and see what comes out of it? I for once like being pleasantly surprised. And if they fail (which is quite likely) – well, that didn’t cost us anything, we merely go back to the same broken state of affairs.
@robryk Don’t know, haven’t really seen this one. But there seem to be plenty of people just assuming that what they see now is everything there is, so the plan is bound to fail.