[Trisquel-users] Re : about the "Do Not Track" signal
We can sell our private information at the asking price unlike labour force. Each individual ought to tell Microsoft or whatever when they collect her/his private information that "I am an owner of my private information, you have to buy it for a billion or do not collect it. This is business". It would not work in that way. It would be Microsoft claiming that "it loves privacy", that it "values" it at US$ 1000 (or whatever large amount)... and that would increase the prices of all their products and services (including the gratis ones) by that same amount. If the user accepts to "sell" her privacy for the generous amount Microsoft offers, Microsoft spies on her, like it does today, and the user pays what she pays today. Only the happy few wealthiest users, who can afford the additional US$ 1000 per product/service, may consider buying (or "not selling") their privacy.
[Trisquel-users] Re : about the "Do Not Track" signal
Citing the Quadrature du Net, which expresses itself better than I would: Admitting that consent could be an economic compensation would mean that fundamental freedoms may be attributed according to economic criteria. Privacy would become a luxury affordable only to the ‘happy few’. Outside the communications sector, some practices are typical examples for this. This includes loyalty cards, offered by big stores and that allow companies to establish detailed profiles from their customers' daily consumption, hence characterizing their sheer intimacy. Whereas the ‘happy few’ can afford to escape this surveillance by not using these cards, the poorest people often have no choice. Refusing to submit to such surveillance would deprive them from promotions often necessary to close their budget. They cannot afford the ‘luxury’ of privacy nor the ‘ease’ of not being under surveillance. However, such things are not luxury nor ease but fundamental freedoms. For this reason, and to fight against such abuses, these fundamental freedoms have all been taken off the market: physical integrity (Art 3(2)(b) of the EU Charter prohibits the sale of one’s own body parts), the freedom of decision over one’s own body (Art 5 of the Charter prohibits submission to forced labour), the freedom to marry, to vote, etc. This should be no different when it comes to privacy and to the confidentiality of communications. Section "Freedoms have no economical value" of https://www.laquadrature.net/files/lqdn_positions_eprivacy_01_09_2017.pdf
[Trisquel-users] Re : about the "Do Not Track" signal
Would you give me a source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personalized_marketing
[Trisquel-users] Re : about the "Do Not Track" signal
I do not think giving a link to install a specific free software add-on means endorsing the proprietary add-ons on that same site: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3557562/neat_url-5.0.0-an+fx.xpi https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3548819/link_cleaner-1.7-an+fx.xpi does the same, as far as I understand.
[Trisquel-users] Re : about the "Do Not Track" signal
Click on the link I gave you, or the one behind Jaret's link.
[Trisquel-users] Re : about the "Do Not Track" signal
I want an one click anonymous disposal email application or addon or something that sends an email to tell them my preference, or rather disgust with some sample forms automatically when it detects a creepy activity. If you use a Firefox derivative, GNU LibreJS provides a button "Complain to site owner", which searches for (not always existing) contact info on the page, so that you can easily file a complaint: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/3538211/gnu_librejs-7.20.2-an+fx.xpi The button "Complain to site owner" appears when you click on LibreJS' icon, on the tool bar of the browser, only if the extension detected nonfree nontrivial JavaScript on the Web page. That includes all websites with trackers, I believe.
[Trisquel-users] Re : about the "Do Not Track" signal
By specification, the DNT header field only admits two possible values: "0" or "1" (or no such header if the user has not expressed any preference): https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/#dnt-header-field Extensions were thought up though: https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/#dnt-extensions However, none has ever been defined. And none will ever be defined because the DNT specification was retired in January 2019. Also, normal human beings do not read HTTP headers. And machines do not understand free text. You had better write emails to administrators of websites with trackers.
