Comment by holowoodman
3 months ago
Theoretically, using zero knowledge proof for age verification is a great idea.
Too bad that while the porn website you are visiting will not get your name from google, google will sell the fact that you visited that porn website to anyone who is interested...
> google will sell the fact that you visited that porn website to anyone who is interested.
Has Google has actually done this? According to Google, they don't sell personal information:
https://about.google/company-info/how-our-business-works/#:~...
I'm willing to believe they've broken this promise, but if you can point to some actual proof, I'd like to see it.
Google does not sell personal information, they rent it out. Targeted advertising and remarketing relies upon building up a huge dossier on each Internet user and then matching those dossiers to ad bids.
Look up real-time bidding.
Some context: https://www.classaction.org/news/google-breaks-user-privacy-...
I read it. It doesn't seem to show that ”google will sell the fact that you visited that porn website to anyone who is interested.” What am I missing?
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"sell the fact that xyz" can this phraseology die? this is not what these big companies do. they sell attention, not data.
Wrong, they sell your activity too. Seems like your information on this topic may be significantly out of date.
how do they "sell your activity"
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They sell data too, if the governments wants the data, they even give it out for free.
If you're using Chrome, which most people are, I'd assume this is the case anyway?
Note - agree with your sentiment.