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Okay, they complete on quality but they are "close" to use your term. My point was that paying to be the default is not enough. A challenger needs to also overcome the brand prefer…

In this case we have two ad supported search engines that deliver a very similar experience. As you note the differentiation is not great and thus, defaults matter. So in this case…

And here's 20 Billion dollars that disagrees with you. If switching was just a "click away" why would Google pay Apple $20B per year to be the default search for iOS etc. https://m…

How would you test the potential long term effects of these new vaccines in an accelerated fashion?

That may not maximize ad revenue however. For instance if the Going rate for placing guitar ads is low (not many people bidding to show guitar related ads) but mortgages is quite h…

Would agree Google Adsense is the giant but they still have competition. A quick search on duckduckgo revealed at least some to investigate. Note - many of these are probably just …

Another idea: also stop using Google to show ads on your web site (adsense). As the article states, you get to decide how much tracking your visitors are subjected to.

Understood. My suggestion was that Facebook "target" based on the content of the post/article/website. Thus a needle ad is shown next to a kitting post. This can certainly be an ar…

I'd imagine that the advertiser could only show needle ads next to content about sewing / knitting and be very effective at reaching the desired audience without resorting to colle…

It looks like Atlassian does take POs though. Is there something about the way they (or other SaaS) companies take POs? How do I submit a Purchase Order (PO number) to Atlassian? (…

Just like minimum wage.

>Targeted advertising if done correctly can connect people who want to buy stuff with people who produce stuff with a minimum of waste. What exactly is the waste? I'm assuming you'…

Agree. The suggestion was for a law that bans highly targeted advertising.

Some good points. I'll try to address a couple. > But what is "personal data"? This is where I think current legislation goes awry. By going with a whitelist (e.g. age, gender, zip…

True, though collecting personal data for legitimate business purposes is not really a problem in my estimation. The ban on targeted advertising would not effect this. Banning targ…

Certainly agree on the process of gaining support but thought we should test the idea a bit first. Also interested in framing the conversation a bit differently. Do you see any obv…

Not an original idea but I'd be interested in HN's perspective. Can we reduce “surveillance capitalism” by reducing the incentive to collect personal data? Personal data is primari…

Kittyhawk has done some really interesting work in the eVTOL space and have shared some of their thoughts on the energy requirements vs. electric cars. The comparison has some gaps…

Very cool to see this technology progress. Will be interesting to track. China certainly has shown that it both can invest in and build public infrastructure at an amazing scale an…