This really is a major issue imho. Many of the people here and those who are more tech savvy would be willing to pay for such a thing, but we are a very small minority. 90% of people don't care, or are unable or unwilling to understand the consequences of having all their data vacuumed up by corporations like Google and Facebook. Its a Tyranny of the majority type of situation. I'm not sure what the solution to this would be other than maybe better educating the populace.

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prewett a day ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe accepting that they do not agree with you?

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lazide a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Most of these things are emotionally driven. Education won’t do shit unless it’s coupled with some kind of training action. People will just laugh it off or accept it. Most people have literally come to accept their phone is listening to them for ads!

Either regulation, or it needs to get so shitty and painful that people get a reflexive avoidance thing going on.

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Workaccount2 a day ago | parent [-]

The real problem is that all the downsides of the "tracking and advertising" tech world are largely hypotheticals and/or so subtle and divorced from day to day life as to be almost imperceptible.

There hasn't really been a "reap what you sow" moment for people who threw privacy caution to the wind for free stuff.

	▲	lazide a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yup, though the current US gov’t is working hard to make that happen, near as I can tell. We’ll see what happens!