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Data Protection- concerned about the bubble....

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Miljah · 12/10/2018 11:01

It occurs to me that a major issue with the new Data protection laws, where every site you visit more or less tells you that if you want to access their site, you have to be okay with their use of cookies and have your data shared with 'affiliates' to 'personalise' your 'experience' - that what will happen is that we'll be yet further surrounded by material that reflects our prejudices back at us, that we'll be exposed to less and less stuff that might challenge our views or beliefs, is it called something like 'confirmatory bias'?

In our fracturing world, that can't be a good thing, can it?

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SpoonBlender · 12/10/2018 11:14

GDRP is trying to prevent that, not encourage it. The cookies/data they're talking about is the ghost profile of you shared between the advertisers. If they're prevented from knowing that, they won't be able to personalise ads to you and they'll show you more random ones instead.

I looked at renting a camper van yesterday, camper vans have been following me about in ads ever since. If sites are prevented from sharing the identifying data to say "Oh, it's Spoons again - dig out the camper van ads" then they might go back to showing me adverts for TV boxed sets I'm completely disinterested in again.

This is bad for the advertisers as they get fewer hits because they're failing to target me.

It's good for me, because a faceless multinational database doesn't know everything about my internet clicks.

Miljah · 12/10/2018 11:19

I guess it's the targeting that bothers me.

I'll just get my narrow interests reflected back at me which isn't always a good thing!

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SpoonBlender · 13/10/2018 01:42

So refuse the cookies when offered.
Use an adblocker (1Blocker or uBlock origin are good)
Use a tracker blocker (Ghostery is good)

Use Firefox or Safari as your browser, both have inbuilt anti-tracker technology. Disable cookies here, or at least set ‘only allow sites to see their own cookie, not external (tracking) cookies’.

Chrome and Edge naturally don’t, as both Google and MS make money out of tracking you.

Don’t let the fuckers build a profile.

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