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by Chronic2h 3458 days ago
Go ahead and take the moral high ground here. No one is stopping you. But you'll be broke as hell if you do (or run out of funding).
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As someone who's been bootstrapping his own startup for the past ... 6 years and refused VC money (not for moral reasons), I have to take it. I still refuse to implement Google Analytics and integrate FB/Dropbox/Google in any of the projects I'm involved with.

Moralist? No, I'm just not into feeding the monster.

Got a link to your startup?
Total rubbish. Targeted advertising is not the economy.
maybe that's not the worst thing.
Fatalism.