Advertisers have to pay big tech to track and target users, for a limited amount of time.
With nostr, they can just use our relays to track and target us, anytime.
WoT fixes this?
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I've been thinking about this aspect too. At least it will open up the market to everyone and there's no single app to force the user to view the ads. The incentives drastically change, hard to tell what the end result of that will be...
Maybe it will even result in the general public realizing the power of metadata if negative things happen and pressure devs to reduce it, or switch to a better app.
great part of the privacy model is same for bitcoin addresses, not correlate npub to kyc identity, avoid reuse and separate identities. The other part is network-related, like use tor and, in future, we will see what would be the best way to send private messages.
Today dms are a mess, but for public notes if you use tor from a foss client like amethyst you dont give pretty any information to noone (except for what you decide to publicy share in notes)
Sure, but it's much easier to avoid reusing a bitcoin address than a nostr pubkey. Reviews I leave on Amazon linked to my identity may not be available to anyone outside Amazon. In a public nostr marketplace I would be incentivized to leverage my social capital to leave a review with my main npub and not a new nym. Of course I could have different npubs for different purposes. Just stating the tradeoff here.
