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Companies that obtain and sell your user information should have to pay you royalties. Agree or disagree? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago by K3zi4 to c/asklemmy

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Privacy concerns are a very popular and valid talking point on Lemmy, so I would like to gather your thoughts and opinions on this. (Apologies if it's already been discussed!)

Would you support this? Would it work or even be viable? (If it could somehow overcome the rabid resistance from these big companies). What are your thoughts?

Personally, I'm getting more and more agitated at the state of this late stage global capitalism, where companies have the gall to ask you to pay or subscribe to their products, while they already make money from you for selling your data. It's been an issue for a long time now, but seems to really be ramping up.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you don’t like it, no one is forcing you to use those apps and services.

I go out of my way to avoid apps that harvest data, and as a result my life is much more difficult. It's a lot of work to stay on top of it, and there is still a lot of data that gets harvested anyways. It's impossible for the average user to do what you're telling us to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's not impossible at all, it just requires work, like you said.