"At the same time, only 1-7% of all users want to be tracked for online advertisement if asked openly. However, "pay or okay" gets 99.9% of users to agree to online tracking. If more than 90% of users do not get what they genuinely want, we have everything but a "genuine" choice."
If I got to the shop and don't want to buy the product I should just get it for free, because that is what I genuinely want?
Nextgrid · 13m ago
The law says that personal data is not a valid form of payment. Businesses have to adjust their business models accordingly.
watwut · 15m ago
Tracking is not payment nor is the company entitled to track people. Der Standard is free to ask for money. They are not free to make tracking condition of a service.
Frieren · 1h ago
At this point I think that this kind of tracking should be forbidden by law.
People should not have an option to accept "being spied at all times on their personal behavior". It is creepy, it is dangerous and it is inhuman.
The exceptions should be the ones that currently already exist in GDPR. Financial institutions can use data to track fraud, law enforcement can use data from ongoing criminal cases, etc.
To have an option "to be spied" is a dystopian result of the lawlessness and bad faith on the Internet.
juliangmp · 1h ago
This!
What benefit does any of this current system provide us anyway?
"At the same time, only 1-7% of all users want to be tracked for online advertisement if asked openly. However, "pay or okay" gets 99.9% of users to agree to online tracking. If more than 90% of users do not get what they genuinely want, we have everything but a "genuine" choice."
If I got to the shop and don't want to buy the product I should just get it for free, because that is what I genuinely want?
People should not have an option to accept "being spied at all times on their personal behavior". It is creepy, it is dangerous and it is inhuman.
The exceptions should be the ones that currently already exist in GDPR. Financial institutions can use data to track fraud, law enforcement can use data from ongoing criminal cases, etc.
To have an option "to be spied" is a dystopian result of the lawlessness and bad faith on the Internet.