Facebook would be the first company that throws small businesses under the bus when they had to.
Honestly, this is how it should be. Personalised tracking does enable a lot of good things. You get the right info when you need it, have systems that are smarter because of all the data they can rely on.
The important point is that tracking has tradeoffs, and companies should allow users the choice to say no. Since they can't be trusted to do this, it has to come from the platform they're running on.
If I were on Facebook's evil board of , I'd buy a mobile manufacturer, make the best possible phones (Facebook is not lacking talent), sell them cheap, load them up with trackers and profit. No one to hold their hand back there.
The world if the internet didn’t exist would be... selfies? It’s that now.
🤣 Hahaha, nice!Yes, it is that if you assume that the “baby” in this case is a demonic entity. And I’m all for that
Bad analogy time! I feel it’s like child labor. For a growing family it’s the “most effective way of enhancing the total earning capacity of the family unit, but we reject that effectiveness because of the likelihood that families/children could be exploited.
They think we’re dumb, and rightly so.It's amazing their lack of self-awareness.
Or they could be very aware -- just evil...
Any implementation makes poor implementation possible, though. For example, I’m sure that there are some parents(grandparents?) that remember having jobs as minors, how much responsibility that provided them, how much job experience they received, how they had the opportunity to learn about saving or investing or consuming on a small scale for YEARS before getting their first job as an adult. And, there were companies that hired youngsters responsibly, didn’t overwork or underpay or coerce or exploit the kids and for THOSE folks, it could have been a well controlled and constructive experience. However, ANY rules, no matter how well constructed, that allow for minors in a workplace opens the door for bad actors to operate and flourish.Here's the deal, you are still doing what I was calling out. You are saying there is NO WAY to do personalized advertising where it isn't a bad thing. Just because the current implementation is bad, doesn't make any potential implementation bad.
I like 99.99% of all of that and it is great to be expanded to think about it that way. Also, I am a horrible optimist and so I will always look to the positive as the potential, knowing that anything in life brings potential downsides. My brain just won't let me focus on "least common denominator" as an approach, it just directs my thoughts to "how could it be" and so overall I think we are on the same page for most of it, just seeing some details slightly different. And that is what makes variety so necessary to us humans! It makes our ideas/life better, just wish more people embraced it.Any implementation makes poor implementation possible, though. For example, I’m sure that there are some parents(grandparents?) that remember having jobs as minors, how much responsibility that provided them, how much job experience they received, how they had the opportunity to learn about saving or investing or consuming on a small scale for YEARS before getting their first job as an adult. And, there were companies that hired youngsters responsibly, didn’t overwork or underpay or coerce or exploit the kids and for THOSE folks, it could have been a well controlled and constructive experience. However, ANY rules, no matter how well constructed, that allow for minors in a workplace opens the door for bad actors to operate and flourish.
The societal response was generally, “OK, this has a number of positives, but even one kid being exploited in this way is TOO many, so we’re throwing the baby out with the bath water because there’s no way to prevent bad actors from gaming the system.”
Personalized advertising currently requires a system where an advertiser has personal information about users. That personal information is valuable not only for the advertiser, but as a set of data they can sell to others. There may be a “good” way to implement personalized advertising, but the good way will never be the most efficient. And, the most efficient, as you say, is the only thing they’re focused on.