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    1. …in reply to @undefined
      @aral Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for the cyberlib devils, I'm spitballing initial research! The CEO of DuckDuckGo was just on Kara Swisher arguing that surveillance-free browsing can swing the pendulum back to old-fashioned (surv-free) ads, for instance
  1. …in reply to @by_caballero
    @aral I think proposing cultural or infrastructural alternatives (partic to the EU) requires proposing alternative business models/ecologies, and the GDPR-compliant alternative ecology to surveillance adtech is... taking its time coming into focus. It's timely to spitball this stuff!
    1. …in reply to @by_caballero
      @aral Here's the Weinberg interview, btw. He sounds to me like his head is in the right place, even if his short-term goals might strike us over here in Europe as too incrementalist :D vox.com/recode/2019/5/27/18639284/duckduckgo-gabe-weinberg-do-not-track-privacy-legislation-kara-swisher-decode-podcast-interview