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That sounds very nice, do tell us if you have come up with or know of a (successful) business model where you do not have to collect the data of users. Nothing comes for free.


Early ad companies didn't collect a ton of information and relied on clickthrough ratio to make money, I worked for one of the biggest in the late 90s.

As time went on, people wanted more and more user data, click bots made targeting entirely neccesary.


>That sounds very nice, do tell us if you have come up with or know of a (successful) business model where you do not have to collect the data of users. Nothing comes for free.

Really? I'm not so sure about that.

If the FBI wants my data, they'll need to come to my premise with a warrant.

Otherwise, they're SOL. And how much does that cost me over and above what I spend for the infrastructure I require? Zero.

How many companies that mine my personal information (for whatever reasons) do I use? Zero.

You are substituting your trained-in prejudices for the laws of nature, IMHO.


"We'd like to award you this $100M contract but first we need our back scratched"


> do tell us if you have come up with or know of a (successful) business model where you do not have to collect the data of users. Nothing comes for free.

http://valueflo.ws asset backed flow -protocols built on top of the holochain dweb framework.


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