I sometimes think that no one cares about online privacy, which makes me really sad, then I read this from @pluralistic - good to know!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve
So maybe people DO care, but just feel like they can't do much about it?
#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #datarape #tracking
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axby
in reply to Patrick Leavy • • •I enjoyed this article, and I didn't know this and found it interesting:
> ... the advertising industry has been repeating since the days when it was waging a massive campaign against the TV remote on the grounds that people would "steal" TV by changing the channel when the ads came on.
I'm not very familiar with life before cable TV, but it seems especially offensive since cable TV is both paid and has a ton of ads. I hope this was at least before paid TV...
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
in reply to axby • • •When I was a little boy, in the 1960s, an issue of MAD magazine showed how to splice an on-off switch on a long wire to the feed to your TV speaker. DIY ad mute button.
The article mentioned how smug you'll feel defeating a TV ad that took millions of dollars to make with a 15 cent switch.
raganwald 🍓
in reply to Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 • • •Can confirm! I made one of these for my mother’s TV using parts from an electronics surplus store. Mine used a variometer with an “off” setting, so we could (gasp!) adjust the volume or mute the TV.
The scene around phreaking/hacking had an Abbie Hoffman vibe in those days.