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by hammock 3222 days ago
Why does the number of users matter?
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Well, I suspect that prohibiting data-brokerage basically helps big players like Google, because it eliminates smaller players who don't have access to such large amounts of data. See [1].

On the other hand, prohibiting ad-based monetization schemes lowers the incentive to excessively track users.

Of course, you could say that everything is proportional to the number of users, but I suspect that's not how it works.

[1] https://adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/eus-general-dat...

because you get lots of market power when have zillions of users.
And 100M users is the tipping point? How many services have 100M users?