[danShumway]

Does it cause you to feel any doubt that the vast majority of the professionals in that field disagree with that conclusion? I mean, you're saying that the majority of privacy researchers who are studying this topic view the current state of Internet privacy as a problem, and it's such a large majority that you felt like sticking around in the field would not be worth your time. Are all of those researchers wrong?

[comfypotato]

It was on completely ideological grounds that we differed. (Which is also against the HN rules to argue about.)

I was attracted to the industry effectively to verify authentication through device fingerprinting. Others, en masse, are drawn because they don’t like the current privacy situation. Can you imagine someone being attracted to marine biology that didn’t like fish?

It’s perfectly reasonable to say that, yes, I disagree with the majority of the field. In this instance, “I don’t like fish.”

[DANmode]

You're also claiming that fish aren't at risk from the fisheries, which is super unusual for someone claiming to speak from within the industry!

[comfypotato]

Well, that’s how the other side feels, yes.

The closest thing this entire thread has given as evidence of overfishing is that a journalist was killed for meddling in government affairs, which has nothing to do with overfishing.