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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by mike22223333 on Friday October 12, 2018 @03:23AM (#18199860)
Person with insider info here. It was Google that started the data race. Rest of the industry was forced because Advertisers would not advertise otherwise because they were getting better return on investment buying ads that were targeted using personal data aka Google.
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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo... by yuhong on Friday October 12, 2018 @05:44PM (#18204936)
DoubleClick dates far before Google, and they bought it in 2007 I think.
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