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from the next-up-is-the-unicorns-pooping-skittles-act dept.
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Search engine and consumer privacy advocate DuckDuckGo has announced the "Do-Not-Track Act of 2019," a piece of draft legislation that would legally require sites to honor users' tracking preferences.
[...]If the act picks up steam and passes into law, sites would be required to cease certain user tracking methods, which means less data available to inform marketing and advertising campaigns.
The impact could also cascade into platforms that leverage consumer data, possibly making them less effective. For example, one of the advantages of advertising on a platform like Google or Facebook is the ability to target audiences. If a user enables DNT, the ads displayed to them when on browsing[sic] those websites won't be informed by their external browsing history.
[Ed Note: By proposed they mean "That's why we're announcing draft legislation that can serve as a starting point for legislators in America and beyond. "]
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:57PM
So it would have been more correct if you had said that they might - in the future - toe a fine line.... etc. There is nothing to indicate that they a doing so at present unless you have more information than we currently have. If you have, then please share...
If we follow your logic, SN could be toeing a fine line between exploiting personal data and not looking as if we do. Now in the case of SN, I have rather more information to convince me that we are NOT doing that, nor are we intending to do so in the future. And if we did I would expect the current staff, including myself, to walk away. Not everyone is out to exploit his/her fellow man.
DDG appear to be making sufficient profit to do what they are doing and not exploiting anyone in the process. As for the future, my crystal ball needs new batteries so I'll wait and see what they do.