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Smartphones, Android, Google, and well, I don't know about services/product used in China, all of them disagree with this statement.
"No human enterprise, no new technology or utility or service, has ever been adopted so widely so quickly. " Smartphones, Android, Google, and well, I don't know about services/product used in China, all of them disagree with this statement.
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Oh, but I'm OK with paying. I paid for netflix, lastpass and zoom. I still pay for dynalist, audible or for having my own email address. However, I'm not OK with having a logged in google account that accumulates everything I do into their DB and AI while I use their services. Even when you pay, they still milk your private life. And they have proved time after time they cannot be trusted with it.
Netflix also accumulates all of your watching habits and feeds it into AI while using their services.
Ad blockers do not protect you from the algorithms that make you more extreme to your side of social or political topic. People are paying and using social media to manipulate your opinion and that do not come just from ads.
Can I use maps to navigate?
Can I browse the Twitter feeds of a few favorite accounts?
Can I consume free video content on YouTube, or any free movies?
Can I make a reservation at a restaurant?
Then, for those activities that I cannot do, is there still a real-world analog method? I used to look up stock prices in the newspaper and buy and sell stocks by phoning by brokerage. Is that still possible?
As the activities of daily life have moved online, our ability to participate in society has attenuated. Has that attenuation yet reached a pathological state? If so, policy needs to provide a way any such activities that cannot be performed without paying with privacy still have a non-Internet method.
Analytics - Fathom (https://usefathom.com), Plausible (https://plausible.io)
Project Management - Portabella (https://portabella.io) (disclaimer: I'm behind this one)
Chat - Signal (https://signal.org/en/), Matrix (https://matrix.org/)
I could absolutely go on and on, because I see new privacy focused products popping up in all sorts of industries every day.
The key is that these services are usually paid, which offsets the need for your data becoming the product.
More and more these days I have less trust in free lunches
There is a big sentiment in the comments that ads are per se a bad thing. I want to make a counter argument: ads drive innovation because they make expensive services possible for the masses. I have watched endless YouTube videos and learned a great many things. I haven’t paid a dime for it yet. Newspaper adoption in mass was achieved by the same mechanism. Ads drove the price for newspaper significantly down so the…
You don't need personal data in order to provide targeted advertising. The proper context of where the ad will be embedded is mostly enough for good targeting.
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You can pay for YouTube premium and get rid of ads. If you spend a non trivial amount of time on YouTube it's well worth it, especially the family account. Don't want to be the product ? Pay for your services then - the money has to come from somewhere.
So the content producers just advertise to you directly, why wouldn’t they? The bigger they get, the more premium viewers, the more sponsors they receive. Eventually YouTube won’t like being cut out gain and boom to YouTube premium now has ads.