Comment by the_common_man | Hacker News Reader

Comment by the_common_man | Hacker News Reader

> Google called its advertising approach "common"

Tragedy of the commons. At this point in time, any and all forms of data collection have become common. When I visit a website, I expect them to collect everything about me - my IP, my mouse movements, what I clicked, how long I took to click it. Just a matter of time, that they start tracking audio and visual cues as well. It's unthinkable today but we will get there. It will enter slowly in the form of alexa and google home. then a browser plugin. Then a browser integration. Then a web api. And to cap it all, everyone will claim how it's made their life better.

I wonder if you're using the term as a poetic device, but as far as I know that's not what Tragedy of the Commons means.

Commons are properties without private owners. The tragedy is that because no one individual owns it, the people that use it use it without care to its maintenance believing that it is not their responsibility.

This is still sort of the same thing. The blame can't be pinned on one single entity because it is so common.

    start tracking audio and visual cues as well

Do you mean microphone and camera, or something else?

(If you do mean mic/camera, sites can't access those without prompting the browser to show a permissions dialog and you clicking "ok".)

How fortunate, then, that browsers never have security bugs.

>And to cap it all, everyone will claim how it's made their life better.

You don't think it actually _will_ make some people's lives better? Do you think those people are being tricked into thinking their life is being improved? Or do you just think the downsides just outweigh those improvements?

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