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I think one of the great signals of good ethical behavior is the person who'll refuse to build a thing that they know should not exist, even when offered a great reward if they'll …

One thing I've noticed about far too many people in tech is that they all seem to believe that those not in tech are stupid. Many of them are not stupid. On average, half of them a…

I'm convinced the parents of the US, and in turn broad bipartisan support, could get behind some sane legislation on this stuff if a massive dump like the New York Times one were d…

It's not their fault they're exploiting a system that allows what they are doing. They're not good people, but if it weren't this set of people, another would take their place. The…

Doesn't help at all. Privacy of varying levels is and has been a functional requirement for smooth working of free society. Economic disparities make the impact of lower levels of …

This is a non-starter for achieving the end result. There's enough of a delta in both the money paid for online advertising of a target nature and in the better results that yields…

Precisely. And then extend it further. Make advertisers responsible for the behavior of the ad marketplaces, ad tech, ad venues they're paying. Make their only defense be cooperati…

The way to criminalize it properly is to create a presumption of criminal activity when an advertiser benefits from ad targeting. Literally anything more than the advertiser choosi…

They don't care. Until you can show them you know how often they're on Grindr and where their tricks live. Or that they got a prescription filled. For Valtrex. What would be helpfu…

Civilized societies don't tolerate "vampires" and cannibals walking among them (or lording from on high). They eliminate them. Eventually the people will wake up.

I have been a Wacom customer for years. I'm not a graphic artist, but I hate mouse cords and hate having to recharge mice or deal with batteries. So a series of Wacom "puck" mice o…

The Work Number's entire sales pitch is... "We'll accept the data from you for free. You can give our our number and website to anyone who calls into your HR looking for employment…

What we actually need in a practical sense is Kindle Unlimited but for web content. And furthermore it could be a plurality of those kinds of providers aggregating content. Deploy …

There are two troubles: 1. The uplift of targeted advertising is unbelievable until you see the actual statistics. It's like slowly sipping a cup of coffee to wake up versus waking…

The entire targeted ad model has to die. As in, being a beneficent party of a targeted ad campaign becomes a presumption of criminal activity. We have to make the advertisers culpa…

s/limited lifespan feel powerful and rich/limited lifespan powerful and rich/ It's a whole attitude. They're aware of their limited lifespan and intend to either buy their way into…

I'm only one voice, but for my part, I am willing to forego the advancements that may come to medicine via this route. The societal costs of surveillance capitalism are only just s…

Totally separate problem that I agree needs to be fixed. In reality, being one BGP trick away from a mere dedicated individual or corporate owning certs for your domain is an actua…

"Sufficiently clever" has historically been more expensive than difficult. For example, in order to scale less expensively, the Great Firewall is architected such that it need not …

Except they are a new problem when the use of them is mandated by a nation-state.

You've elegantly stated my point precisely. Thank you!

No disagreement here. What's being done is despicable. Rather than death, if we look at the history of oppressive societies, the more likely outcome is a job offer, the kind they w…

We have E-SNI now, where SNI is encrypted. And you have DoH providers who'll use that. And then massive CDNs will start to support it. Some of them might even enable it, with encry…

This is both uncomfortable and correct.

That's fair, but the country doing this will just fork an open-source browser and make it their official browser.