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Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:02PM (#24033487)
Google raised its prices multiple times, you just have to stop evaluating prices in fiat currency. Google provides services in exchange for your personal data. So each time they take more data, they raised the price.

Merging DoubleClick data with Google accounts was a huge price hike. Starting to store your web and app activity centrally, was a price hike. Mining your Gmail receipts to populate a "purchases" tab in your account? Price hike. Auto-logging your Chrome in when you logged into Gmail, holy price hikes, Batman. You get the idea.

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Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by an_opabinia on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:07PM (#24033517)
You right away jump into something unknowable like the exchange rate of “data” and “fiat currency,” in exactly the kind of economic positivist framework (really crypto anarchist jargon) that is incommensurable with policy.

Like obviously the price of doing Google searches and visiting YouTube is zero so I don’t know, even if I accept your premise at face value anything exchange for zero is possible interpreted as a zero or undefined exchange rate.

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Re:Google starts testing its replacement for third-party coo... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday August 02, 2020 @10:09PM (#24033527)
I think cryptocurrency is stupid but I thought "fiat" was still a good term to use here. Data absolutely has value, and both Congress and these companies know that and consider it uncontroversially true.
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