Why Vivaldi browser thinks Google’s new proposal, the Web-Environment-Integrity spec, is a major threat to the open web and should be pushed back.
  • @joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    but the scale and invasiveness of the ads and data collection has clearly accelerated beyond a reasonable level

    Reasonable to whom? You? Google? The legal system? Some dude living in a bunker in South Dakota? Which person or entity should google consult with before making a decision on what level is “reasonable”?

    Making the decision to fund a vast majority of the internet with ads was a pretty big mistake in hindsight, though I couldn’t say which way would have been better.

    We don’t disagree on the basics; I just don’t blame a company for acting in the company’s best financial interests. That’s kind of the way they work-- arguably the CEO of a public company is bound by law to do so. I blame the representatives in the (US) government for failing to protect my interests and privacy. I frequently see news articles about consumer protections in Europe and feel jealous that we don’t have the same level here.

    • archomrade [he/him]English
      1•2 years ago

      I don’t blame Google for perusing their capitalistic interests.

      I blame a neoliberal system that encourages it, and I blame capitalist apologists that get in the way of meaningful change.

    • @darkkite@lemmy.mlBEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      legally yes they’ve been fined by numerous governments for excessive privacy violations

      • @joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        That’s fair but presumably, since they’re not racking up fines cumulatively, that they are now in accordance with the law… so are you saying that the current level is “reasonable”? Am I misunderstanding you point?

    • Hello HotelEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I blame the representatives in the (US) government for failing to protect my interests and privacy.

      If a (at this time fictional, really powerful, general purpose) AI exists to enshure as many stamps are delivered to its door as possable (a maximizer), it needs to make inert anything that would restrain it from that goal in any capacity. Law is subverted because with laws, you cant maximize stamps by stealing the carbon from others (likely killing them) to grow trees to stuff and let rot in a random house.

      Maximizers are indiffrent to human life.