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MiroslavPokorny • today at 12:26 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

Theres only one solution, ban third party advertising. Everything else is a compromise that doesnt work anyway.


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pull_my_finger • today at 3:40 AM

The problem isn't advertising, it's data harvesting and sale. Ads used to rent space on websites - totally reasonable. The whole industry around the purchase and sale of user data is what needs to be banned.

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charcircuit • today at 1:30 AM

Fingerprinting is still needing for preventing fraud and platform abuse like spam.

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__MatrixMan__ • today at 3:44 AM

How would you enforce that? Who can be trusted with the ability to classify things as advertising and in so doing silence their critics?

The solution is explicit trust. Not fingerprints for users, but digital signatures for content. If it's not signed by somebody the user trusts, don't render it.

The user is the only one who can be approach that task without a conflict of interest. If somebody wants the user to run code that phones home about user behavior, make them gain the user's trust.

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