Selling personal data at all should just be banned. It says personal right in the name... Giving away free services with forced adds is exploitation in my opinion. The first step to solving the issue is to require everything have a paid option that gets rid of adds and doesn't sell personal data for additional profit. The hard part with that is preventing them from just setting the price unreasonably high.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd imagine there's a point where the money from subscriptions is greater than the money from advertising and data hoarding.

The "unreasonably high" prices should be self-solving in that context, because the company won't make more money by selling ads for less than the price of a subscription.

In fact, in order to justify raising the prices too much they'd have to change more for the ads, which in turn would hurt the ad industry by reducing the ROI in marketing.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah I never understood why ads make so much money. Seems like some kind of gift is going on.