Jalon Lanier, Tech Evangelist Says Users Should Pay For Google And Facebook Services
In the wake of the privacy scandal with Facebook Inc. that also implicates Alphabet"s, Jalon Lanier, an influential tech evangelist during the TED 2018 conference in Vancouver suggested that Facebook and Google should review their business model with inclusion of ad-free options. Often referred to as the father of virtual reality, Lanier told the Vancouver event that users who do not want their private information toyed with should have the liberty to pay for the services via a monthly subscription fee or whatever option that best suits the internet companies. This model should be considered as an alternative to overly relying on ad placements. Mark Zuckerberg, last month, had a fallout with Tim Cook, Apple CEO who criticised Facebook"s documented data collection technique which involves harvesting massive amounts of users" data and using them targeted advert purposes. He argued further that the users" profile which the social network has built should not exist bec...