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For all the remarks here on how FLoC is bad for privacy here, i'm surprised that StackOverflow is missing the opportunity to discuss the larger issue of monetization methods in tech.

Ads by themselves aren't bad and neither is personalization. These methods of monetizing content have led to the huge surge of interest, talent and capital into Software Engineering companies and has arguably funded some of the most remarkable technological advancements of the past two decades or longer if you consider all the things that have come out of research projects in companies with primarily an advertising business model.

There are certainly valid criticisms of personalized advertising and personally, i believe there is too much concentration of power in the market.

However, i'd love to hear intelligent peoples perspectives here on how we preserve this wildly successful business model while tackling the abusive parts? If tomorrow the consequences of these restrictions by platform owners such as Apple or Google end up concentrating more of the power within the walls of the largest players, we're simply trading one set of problems for a much larger set.