You may need it. I don't. The reason there is so little economic activity on Hive is that >1m users that bothered to sign up and start posting have abandoned the platform, most before Hive existed. There's ~3k people here posting now out of ~2.5m accounts, and most of those accounts are owned by whales or abandoned. How many are AI sock puppets no one knows.
Where'd all those organic users from 2018 go? Away, because this is where the money goes:
Found the problem! More money coming in from censors...er, advertisers, won't help if it all just goes to the whales.
Well obviously, since Im refering to the creator economy, a total of 0 ad revenue should go towards the whales or any curator account.
And this?
What about it?
The implication I get from that post is that Leo is gathering data on the market to be advertised to. Not something I have thought was happening on Hive before now. Certainly implied by @antisocialist to be a new and troubling occurrence.
That's why I don't use Goolag, Meta, or X already. Well, besides they censored me, and etc. I won't put up with it here either.
I'm doubting it's all that new.
I just had cause to find it now.
Odds are they have been doing it all along.
I dont see any difference between gathering Hive transaction data that Dalz or Arcange is doing and gathering advertiser data.
Its all public, put up willingly.
The only issue I have is if the user that has his data sold isnt profiting from it. That I dont support. That, I stated in the original comment.
This is not true. Advertiser data is sold, not published freely, as Hive reporters do in the hope of users providing upvotes in appreciation of their efforts. No one I know of has publicly revealed that Posh, Sting, Peakd, or Leo are collecting the tracking information @antisocialist blocked. That data being collected was an apparent surprise to @antisocialist, and to my knowledge isn't published anywhere on the blockchain. If I am wrong, please show me where it is.
I note you have forthrightly stated you very much desire advertiser money, and while I am vehemently opposed to that noxious influence on Hive, when we state forthrightly our policies we can openly discuss them and learn each from the other such that we may agree after hearing others' viewpoints, or at least respect and come to terms with one another if we cannot.
But please do not falsely claim that advertisers will publish the data they collect freely, because they do not, and demonstrate a long history of keeping that information proprietary and selling it to the highest bidder as a business asset they own. Misleading people about fundamental aspects of advertising may seem or feel like it can help your cause and persuade people to agree to tolerate advertising and the influence of advertisers on Hive, but it will not be true, and advertisers will prove it false quickly, which will turn allies into enemies with alacrity, causing dissension and perhaps alienating people to the degree they will hold enmity that will not be slaked except by your bearing costs grievous and dire.
Any issue you have with what you describe as tracking should be brought up with the frontends.
I have no problem with anyone using anything I do on the internet to create monetary value if I too benefit from it.
I am here willingly, knowingly existing.