Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Make us pay for it

The cost of an ad-free internet: $35 more per month
That’s why two senators from both sides of the aisle, Mark Warner (D-VA) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), pitched a bill Monday that would require companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon to disclose how much your data is worth.
That made us think about how much of the internet — and the products and content we consume on it — are paid for by advertising, which advertisers will pay more for if it’s backed by data that tells them who they’re reaching. If tech companies didn’t have advertising, they would have less incentive to collect our data so extensively. But then they’d have to find other ways to make money, which means they’d likely charge us to use their services.
OK, how do I pay for it? Make a Swift exchange for each post I read? No, I am using penny clicker.  That is what this legislation does, it makes Penny Clicker and absolute must have killer app. Sandbox wins these battles.

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