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Re:The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking serv... by lwansbrough on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:20AM (#16790607)
Explain to me how some of the world's most popular services would operate without advertising revenue?
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Re:The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking serv... by fulafel on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:32AM (#16790646)
It's easy to see how "the Internet would become a noticeably nicer place" could be true while "some of the world's [previously] most popular services would operate" could be false at the same time.
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Re:The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking serv... by beagle3 on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:01AM (#16790747)
That’s a cousin of the broken window fallacy, I am not sure it has a name, though.

How would the horse merchants operate if everyone used cars?

How would window fixers survive if there were no stones being thrown?

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Re:The Guardian covertly sends your data to 58 tracking serv... by beedogs on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:12AM (#16798932)
They might not be able to. But popular doesn't mean necessary or good.

We'll survive without Facebook or YouTube.

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