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Re:Why I’m Worried About Google by _red on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:44AM (#18129616)
Because your "privacy focused nonprofit" is itself funded by those very same "multi-billion ad companies".
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Re:Why I’m Worried About Google by orf on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:51AM (#18129663)
Sure, so this means they are now a multi-billion dollar advertising company as well?

If a tobacco company makes a donation to a cancer research charity, do we now hate the charity?

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Re:Why I’m Worried About Google by lallysingh on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @08:48AM (#18129630)
The money flow itself doesn't invalidate them. They have multiple bidders for their defaults, and that isolates them from the whims of their funders. The funders are just customers.
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