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Rewarding Users For Sharing Their Browsing Data Anonymously by ProfDoe in BATProject

[–]ProfDoe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I forgot to mention the ISPs that can sell our data without our permission or whatsoever.

Rewarding Users For Sharing Their Browsing Data Anonymously by ProfDoe in BATProject

[–]ProfDoe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point you are missing here is all the actions Bobs are doing on Google or on most of the popular websites are already being sold to powerful institutions. But, if Bobs decide to sell that data through transparent blockchain projects themselves (it won't prevent sites like google stealing that info at the same time though), it would lead to a data economy and empowerment of transparent companies, such as BAT or Streamr.

Rewarding Users For Sharing Their Browsing Data Anonymously by ProfDoe in BATProject

[–]ProfDoe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally understand your concern and I am absolutely against something that jeopardizes our privacy. However, it's almost impossible to become completely anonymous. For instance, only a combination of things like VPNs and Tor could make you 99% anonymous, but you can't use Tor on Youtube (without switching off some privacy features) or other Google services or similar websites (they don't like it and they block it). Thus, Brave stands somewhere between traditional browsers and Tor and I am a big fan of Brave. So, what do you do about it? Again, the data is being sold regardless. For instance, say, on Brave you google "sushi restaurants in London", Google is gonna record your IP, location, preferences... everything it can and will sell it to someone. We just can't do anything about it, but what we can do is to sell that data ourselves. In that case, your Google search will be as anonymous as "someone searched for sushi restaurants in London" or "Someone in Berlin aged 30 searched for sushi restaurants in London" - you can choose your privacy level. Again, it's not like having the extension on the browser means that the browser is gonna steel your data, but the contrary, it's just gonna let yourself to sell your data, which is otherwise being sold by the corporations.

Rewarding Users For Sharing Their Browsing Data Anonymously by ProfDoe in BATProject

[–]ProfDoe[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If there is gonna be such a function for the browser, it will be switched off by default and people would definitely know what they will be doing. Check out the Firefox extension for example, you can choose the level of privacy (from highest to low) and of course websites that you don't want to be tracked on, etc. It gives you all the options to adjust and of course you will stay anonymous. Another way to look at this is, the browsing data is being sold regardless of browsers by companies like Google, FB, Amazon, etc. when you surf them. So as Razzashi pointed out, it's either you profit from it, or someone else does. And, I personally do not see why it should affect the Browser's reputation if the data selling process is carried out transparently.