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by ndriscoll 705 days ago
"Privacy friendly" (not really) ads are not a reasonable model. That just makes them a chrome knockoff, and there's no longer a purpose for their existence.

A reasonable way to survive would be to have invested part of the half billion dollars per year they've been taking in for the last 15 years and built up a trust to permanently pay for developers.