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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by pmontra on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:25AM (#21023763)
$5 for a tracking free Google, including no Google ads on any site? Maybe. But then it would be $5 to any other tracking network and there will probably be some other tracking with no opt out. I'll be still running adblockers and privacy extensions, so paying is pointless.
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by BoorishBears on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:50AM (#21026623)
Ha, case in point. A technical person talking themselves out of a hypothetical situation where they pay, now imagine everyone else.
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Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law by pmontra on Saturday September 21, 2019 @11:21AM (#21035872)
The point is that I wouldn't be paying for a search service, I would be paying for not to be tracked, which is something I don't want to happen. It's so similar to paying for insurance against fires (think of gangster movies.) I don't like it.
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