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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by skybrian on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @04:21PM (#22049363)
Have you considered the possibility that the future behavior of consumers and lawmakers is not that easy to predict and people have different opinions about it? We can't reliably predict which products will be popular, the next election, or what laws will pass.

Past results are that the advertising-supported Internet is enormously lucrative. Things are changing though. We will find out what happens when it happens.

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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by mattacular on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:55AM (#22054107)
Google doesn't need to predict the future of an advertising supported internet when they can manipulate it directly eg. with their chrome marketshare.
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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by skybrian on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:14PM (#22056729)
Although Google is a powerful position, this is fundamentally not how markets work. Google is not a dictator directly controlling users, advertisers, or websites. They are other people who make their own decisions based on their perceived interests.

Not even monopoly markets are dictatorships.

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