[PLUG] IP Tracking

[Tomas Kuchta]

I tried to make a point about with whom and how we delegate and spread
trust.

I tried to dress it somewhat, so that I did not come as a...le.

That being said, I find it extremely dangerous to a healthy discourse to be
spreading unverified opinions - especially about privacy and security.
People can and do get hurt.

We, as a race, are build to trust just about anything. Just look at how
profitable all sorts of crazy scams are or at the what kind of stuff people
trust before/after election, when ill, ...

That being said, I personally have no qualified opinion on Ghostery -
beyond the fact that there is lots of money and influence at stake AND WE
ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER.

Should their revenue come 100% from us users - in the form of subscription,
support, licenses, what not - then the incentives would be aligned with
users.

Germany is kind of irrelevant here - see emission cheating.

I hope this clarifies my point a little.

Tomas

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 20:10 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Ben Koenig wrote:
>
> > IMO, Rich isn't going to get what he wants,
>
> Ah, but with regard to letting ghostery do what it can to block tracking
> and
> accepting the results are just what I want. :-)
>
> If you want to experience having to prove negatives (e.g., by assuring that
> no adverse consequences will result from an permitted activity) get into
> the
> wonderful Lewis Carroll based world of environmental regulatation.
>
> In real life the lack of environmental regulatory science has as many
> consequence for all of us as does Internet security and tracking, Perhaps
> more because we can't turn off the natural world.
>
> Rich
>
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