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They work for you. So pay them. Either with money or with your data. Your choice. I find it very strange that everybody expects free content.
@stefanmuelller Only folks who don’t understand what “pay with your data” means would offer it as an acceptable option in polite company.
Short: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy
Longer: https://small-tech.org/videos/the-camera-panopticon/
I know very well what this means. I am a computer scientist with a PhD in cs. I am in the internet since 1989 and have my webpage since 1994. I never used cookies on any of my webpages.
I block cookies wherever I can and delete the rest regularly.
What did I say? I said: pay them. I pay the Guardian and the taz although they provide their content for „free“. They have to pay their staff. I also pay for other newspapers and magazines.
If you do not want to pay them with cash you pay with data. A much higher price. We both agree on this. However, I would not call people names who try to run a newspaper or blog and pay their staff.
PS I am one of the press directors of an #openaccess publishing house that publishes free for authors. But somebody has to pay the bills in the end. In our case it is 100+ universities.
@stefanmuelller @breadandcircuses If describing what they do is calling them names then maybe they should reconsider what they do. They’re not journalists, they’re an adtech company. They’re surveillance capitalists. They make money by being part of the same extractive and exploitative system that gave us Cambridge Analytica and Boris Johnson and Trump and women in the US getting prosecuted for having had abortions.
@stefanmuelller @breadandcircuses I have the utmost respect for journalism. Adtech isn’t journalism.
The app is not available in my app store.
@stefanmuelller @breadandcircuses We no longer maintain it. It just wasn’t viable and building the Small Web is taking up every minute of my time :) (The link is to an article we published while we were maintaining it that I thought you might find interesting.)