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Re:AdTech Sucks: This Time It's Personal IDs by user17843 on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:37AM (#20182845)
its not about the ads, its about the survaillence infrastructure.
Re:AdTech Sucks: This Time It's Personal IDs by EGreg on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:08AM (#20183607)
Exactly this.

People somehow think that if you get rid of ads the surveillance architecture will go away. They say “if you’re not paying, you’re the product” but the converse is not true - you could be paying and STILL the company could be collecting your data, such as ISPs.

We need full end to end encryption and decentralization! Everything should be opt-in by design.