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There is a trend I often see recently. Problems I think about (e.g., Section 230, social media, surveillance capitalism) defy simple solutions yet this is what too many seem to propose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is an example. Google proposes that it is going to block third party cookies<\/a> in the chrome browser. I have proposed the same thing. There are already ways to do this with extensions to browsers. A third party cookie means that information that can be derived from your visit to a particular web site is sent via cookie to a web service not responsible for the site you are using. So, for example, you search for something on Amazon and see ads for what you were looking at on a different site. In my way of thinking, I should view ads from sites I visit because I am typically using that site at no cost. I am trading my attention to the ads on that site for the free use of the site. The companies responsible for the ads are paying for the service I am using rather than me. However, I don’t feel an obligation to other sites for this information collected from my attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regulators in the U.K. are upset with the Google plan<\/a> because by not allowing third-party cookies Google is limiting the opportunities of small companies to benefit from Google’s dominant market share. I guess I can see this argument from the perspective of a small company unable to generate the attention paid to Google services, but not from the perspective of a consumer who in a way is being asked to fund services they might not use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see no way out of such complex issues unless the entire ad model is abandoned and I don’t see this happening. <\/p>\n

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