T-Mobile Has Started Selling Your App Data To Advertisers
T-Mobile has just officially launched its new ad platform, known as T-Mobile Advertising Solutions. That innocuous name hides a rather sketchy business model – it aggregates your mobile application usage and sells it to advertisers. Android Police reports: The specifics of the program will sound familiar to anyone who has followed the ebb and flow of browser t … ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net so fucking disgusting. Advertising based business models really need to be banned 🤬

@prologic@twtxt.net Selling data should, but not advertising itself. If it was, most free to use sites/apps would have to go with some kind of a paid subscription of beg for donations even more agressively.

I know it’s a bit hypothetical coming from me, with my relatively agressive adblocking settings, but I was fine with ads, before they became the intrusive privacy nightmare, that they are now.

@thecanine@twtxt.net You will note I specifically said “advertising based business models” 🤗

@thecanine@twtxt.net The problem with these types of business models is that the user becomes a commodity and information becomes a weapon. #targeted #advertising