2mo ago

UK petition to ban harvesting of behavioural metadata for ads

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising

Please sign this petition to get this topic discussed by the UK government.

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4mo ago

Petition: Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising

petition.parliament.uk /petitions/713456

17 comments

This sounds like a good idea.
- Sounds like what we should have been protected from before they put mind parasites in our minds
  
  It's a step into into the right direction.
  Doing something late is better than doing nothing at all.
  Yes our data is already out there but at least we can make it illegal for them to collect more new data, it probably won't stop them but it's a start.
Come on, ban ALL data collection for ads. This will be good for privacy, and for the environment. The internet will save enormous amounts on power and hardware.
- It's insane that this is even needed. Show me ads for things relevant to the content of the web page and nothing else. If I'm reading about furnace filters, sure, show me an ad for buying furnace filters, I might buy from you, but don't follow me around for 2 weeks shoving furnace filter ads in my face. If I'm not reading about them anymore, I've moved on.
  The added benefit of this approach for advertisers would be that you can literally embed the ads in the page, making ad-blockers ineffective. They literally chose the worst method for everyone involved.
- Damn, I hadn't even thought about the environment impact! Is there any research quantifying that?
  
  There is, even though they are estimates. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2347683-online-adverts-estimated-to-use-as-much-energy-as-a-small-country/
Brexit left us keeping all the braindead legislature like the fucking paper straws and bottle caps whilst moving towards scrapping the sensible ones like GDPR.
Fucking knobs in govt. since David Cameron payed any attention to Enoch Powell's reincarnation the fascist racist american bootlicking dickhead Farage.
This is atleast positive
https://social.vivaldi.net/@jon/114505480646748832
- Thank you! The Vivaldi team are great 😁
This would be a great thing to happen; under a Starmer gov't (and any inbound Reform administration) it is not gonna.
Also petition.parliament.uk is a tool created by Westminister to divert energy from real action to signing a petition. If you wanna get involved with doing something like this then look to and support Open Rights Group, Big Brother Watch, Privacy International etc.
- I do support them already 😊
  But you're right about this government - they just got exposed for being corrupt with big tech https://archive.is/DlUeE

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