Zoals afgesproken bestond je huiswerk voor vandaag uit de hoofdstukken:
- I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.
- I Cut Facebook Out of My Life. Surprisingly, I Missed It
- I Cut Google Out Of My Life. It Screwed Up Everything
- I Cut Microsoft Out of My Life—or So I Thought
- I Cut Apple Out of My Life. It Was Devastating
- I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell
Goed lezen en begrijpen wat er staat:
I Cut Facebook Out of My Life. Surprisingly, I Missed It
Originally, I just planned to block myself from using Facebook by routing all my internet traffic through a virtual private network (VPN) which is prohibiting my devices from communicating with the 122,880 IP addresses controlled by Facebook. But I decide this experiment is an opportunity to do something additional, something more drastic.
Facebook’s misdeeds with our data have been news cycle fodder for at least a decade, but the past year has been particularly bad. The only explanation for why most of us are still members is Stockholm Syndrome.
The built-in counter tells me in real time how many data packets are trying to get a tech giant; it was spinning like crazy when I was blocking Amazon, but advances far more slowly with Facebook. (Over the course of the week, my devices try to communicate with Facebook over 15,000 times compared to nearly 300,000 times for Amazon the week before.)
The vast majority of Facebook’s requests are likely its attempts to track my movements around the web, via Like and Share buttons, Facebook Analytics, Facebook Ads, and Facebook Pixel. Facebook Pixel, if you haven’t heard of it, is a little piece of code that a company can put on its website—say, on a particular sneaker page that you look at while signed into Facebook on your work computer. Once the pixel captures you looking at the sneaker page, the shoe company can retarget you through Facebook, so you later see an ad for the same shoe when you’re scrolling through Instagram on your personal phone.
In an email, a Facebook spokesperson just “wanted to point out” that “your experience seeing advertising across devices is common and not new to online advertising.” True, but unlike Pixel, not every web tracker is on over 2 million websites.
In je eigen woorden, wat drijft haar?
A couple of months ago, I set out to answer the question of whether it’s possible to avoid the tech giants. Over the course of five weeks, I blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple one at a time, to find out how to live in the modern age without each one.
To end my experiment, I’m going to see if I can survive blocking all five at once.
Hier wordt ene Gillmor sprekend opgevoerd. Ga bij jezelf na, kan ik dit samenvatten?
[He] teaches digital hygiene classes where he tries to get people to think about their privacy and security. He usually starts the class by asking people if they know when their phones are communicating with cell towers. “Most people say, ‘When I use it,’ but the answer is, ‘anytime it’s on,’” he says.
He wants people to think about their own data trails but also when they are creating data trails for other people, such as when a person uploads their contacts to a technology service—sharing information with the service that those contacts might not want shared.
“Once the data is out there, it can be misused in ways we don’t expect,” he says.
But he thinks it’s going to take more than actions by individuals. “We need to think of this as a collective action problem similar to how we think about the environment,” he says. “Our society is structured so that a lot of people are trapped. If you have to fill out your timesheet with an app only available on iPhone or Android, you better have one of those to get paid.”
Gillmor wants lawmakers to step in, but he also thinks it can be addressed technologically, by pushing for interoperable systems like we have for phone numbers and email. You can call anyone; you don’t need to use the same phone carrier as them. And you can take your phone number to a different carrier if you want (thanks to lawmaker intervention).
When companies can’t lock us into proprietary ecosystems, we have more freedom. But that means Facebook would have to let a Pinterest user RSVP for an event on its site. And Apple would need to let you Facetime an Android user.
No one wants to give the keys out when they have customer lock-in.
Niet verplicht voor je cijfer maar weet jij andere vormen van blokkeren te noemen en geef dan een voorbeeld:
Germany blocks Facebook from pooling user data without consent
Germany’s antitrust watchdog on Thursday blocked Facebook from pooling data collected from Instagram, its other subsidiaries and third-party websites without user consent in a landmark decision on internet privacy rights and competition. The Federal Cartel Office said it was tackling what it described as the Silicon Valley company’s “practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data” to user accounts.
Is het mogelijk een blokkade weer te blokkeren?
Why We Disagree With the Bundeskartellamt
While we’ve cooperated with the Bundeskartellamt for nearly three years and will continue our discussions, we disagree with their conclusions and intend to appeal so that people in Germany continue to benefit fully from all our services.
Welke omschrijving past bij een entiteit die wordt geblokkeerd vanwege blokkeren:
Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
Spotify will take a harder stance on ad blockers in its updated terms of service. In an email to users today, the streaming music and podcast platform said its new user guidelines “mak[e] it clear that all types of ad blockers, bots and fraudulent streaming activities are not permitted.” Accounts that use ad blockers in Spotify face immediate suspension or termination under the new terms of service, which go into effect on March 1.
Jouw antwoord:
[ ] Frankly, if you have an adblocker, you are a shoplifter; [ ] I would like to point out that ad revenue usually comes from clicks on ads, not viewing ads; [ ] I have no legal or moral obligation to view the information someone gives to me on their terms. I can skip pages in books and magazines, I can change channels when ads show up on TV, and I can filter ads out of my browser. None of these things are remotely akin to shoplifting.Correct