Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 498
One thing that you are not considering is that internet users are expending resources to maintain tracking cookies. These resources include CPU cycles, bandwidth, hard drive space, and electricity.
Granted, cookies don't require too much of these resources, but still, the user is expending these resources for the benefit of some marketing company. Moreover, the user often doesn't know they are expending these resources, and they didn't agree to it. Tracking cookies generally arrive on a computer unannounced.
So users are spending resources solely for the financial benefit of some company in an unagreed and uncompensated manner.
Granted, cookies don't require too much of these resources, but still, the user is expending these resources for the benefit of some marketing company. Moreover, the user often doesn't know they are expending these resources, and they didn't agree to it. Tracking cookies generally arrive on a computer unannounced.
So users are spending resources solely for the financial benefit of some company in an unagreed and uncompensated manner.
