They all(Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.) abuse, and needs to be pulled back to reality by laws and regulations.
If everyone on the planet subscribed, you would earn about $7 billion dollars a year. I would suggest that would not be enough to cover costs. $1 a month may not even cover costs. Infrastructure (Data Centers, Networks, Servers) are very expensive. Not to mention the people required to operate them.
Well, he could still optionally misuse your data later
, just like Apple, Google and Facebook did and still does.Agreed. Apple “protects” your data and habits by not sharing them with third party apps, but has no problem mining that data for their own purposes.
Google has announced plans to strengthen user privacy on Android...
Private social media is a bit of an oxymoron. People on social media don’t REALLY want privacy. If they wanted privacy, they wouldn’t be on social media.
They want an engine that will go through their pictures, posts, etc. determine what other users might be interested in seeing their posts and to be connected with those users in an effort to increase their influence, grow their “friends” list, etc. But, $1 a year won’t even come close to providing the funds required to continuously maintain the security of the site as new exploits are discovered. And, since you’re not on AWS or Google, you’re going to have to pay for a team capable of keeping a the systems up, hardware firmware patched, routers protected, (plus multiple replicated sites to avoid outages) and available for potentially millions of customers. And, that’s even before you get into the effort of your teams that would be required to moderate the service. And, with ZERO tracking, it would be very difficult to have functional groups (as, on the back end, you’d need to track what groups they belong to).
What a spin, the creators of ad tracking, now want to be the good guys.
Ineffective.....hahahaha, yea it hits them in their data scraping pocket book!
Google has announced plans to strengthen user privacy on Android with a new initiative that will put an end to cross-app tracking on Android over the next two years, making it more difficult for advertisers to track users across other apps.
In a blog post, Google announced a multi-year project named "Privacy Sandbox" that introduces "more private advertising solutions" for mobile apps. The cornerstone of Privacy Sandbox will limit data shared with other third-party apps, making it more difficult for advertisers to build a profile of users for targeted advertising purposes.
The new initiative will draw similarities with Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework (ATT) that launched with iOS 14.5 last year. Unlike Apple's ATT, which requires all apps to ask for user consent before tracking them across other apps and websites, however, Google's Privacy Sandbox will limit app ability as default while also looking for new privacy-preserving ways to enable mobile advertising.
Announcing Privacy Sandbox today, Google seemingly took aim at Apple's ATT framework, saying "blunt approaches are proving ineffective" and that "other platforms have taken a different approach to ads privacy, bluntly restricting existing technologies used by developers and advertisers." The goal with Privacy Sandbox is for "users [to] know their information is protected, and developers and businesses have the tools to succeed on mobile," according to Google.
Apple's ATT prompt shown to all users when an app is first opened on iOS 14.5 and later
Soon after Apple previewed ATT and following its launch with iOS 14.5 last year, Facebook, now renamed to Meta, became vocal about its displeasure with the new requirement amid fears it would significantly impact its advertising business. Its fears seemingly became true, with the social media giant saying ATT will cost it $10 billion in lost revenue this year.
Google's approach is striking a different tone, with Snapchat, who had previously said ATT presented a "risk" to its business, saying in a statement that it is "excited to collaborate with Google to develop new privacy-preserving standards for Android." Google said it would receive input across the industry as it builds Privacy Sandbox over the next two years.
Article Link: Google Launching Privacy Sandbox to Limit Ad Tracking on Android, Calls 'Blunt Approaches' Like Apple's 'Ineffective'
Some, don't work without the "Smart" part, even disconnected from the internet, it's a point of failure, if the Smart chip fails, so does the whole TV. I recently had an Insignia TV were the remote only worked via the WIFI chip, and if failed, I could only turn the volume up and down. Couldn't access the menu, or change inputs.
