The Internet's Economic Model

With the new Safari 11 update, Apple takes an important step to protect your privacy, specifically how your browsing habits are tracked and shared with parties other than the sites you visit. In response, Apple is getting criticized by the advertising industry for "destroying the Internet's economic model." While the advertising industry is trying to shift the conversation to what they call the economic model of the Internet, the conversation must instead focus on the indiscriminate tracking of users and the violation of their privacy.

You can read the rest @
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/apple-does-right-users-wrong-advertisers

That model seems based on two premises:

1. Anything can be turned into a commodity, and
2. Corporations have the right to steal those commodities and sell them to whomever they wish without compensating the victims of their thefts.

Screw the Internet. I would happily give it up if it meant that Apple-Facebook-Google-Microsoft-CIA-FBI-NSA could no longer meddle with our lives.

What do you think?