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by nologic01 968 days ago
Would be interesting to see a "price" for users actually being shown generic ads but with absolutely no profiling or other "personalized" experience.

I would never trust that entity anyway, even if they offered it, but curious what fraction of their haul is really the surveillance and behavioral profiling part as distinct from the placing-ads-on-a-surface part (which is how newspapers, TV and billboards operated forever).

The economics of ad-supported but non-tracking platforms is an important parameter as we contemplate what options do we have for less evil online platforms.