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Yes - pretty much impossible to NOT use some kind of FB service these days. Hence all the anti-trust hoopla.

More meaningful than the $5b fine, Zuck has to personally be responsible for any privacy related regulations

Certain types of technology will make espionage easier for China on US citizens than the other way around. They are just battling over rules of war.

You're not going to get rid of espionage. NSA has been doing this for years. The ban is purely a battle for who has more power and control. In the end, the user loses no matter what. Someone will be watching.

Currency is about trust. Do you trust these companies? Idk if you've been living under a rock, but a bunch of them are getting slammed for privacy and security breaches.

I'm always left wondering what every person regardless of socio-economic standing can do to contribute.

I was referring to this, but it looks like there was an update to the article saying that it might not block everything https://www.tomsguide.com/us/chrome-block-ad-blockers,news-3...

Not everyone has money to give.

Do people think they'll be able to change things?

A movement starts with a small number of people who believe in it. If an article convinced me to change something in my daily life, I'd probably tell other people to change it too.

Better than an article that leaves me with no action points.

These articles always leave me wondering what I can do today to contribute. Not money, not scientific research, just daily change like not using plastic bottles (or something).

This problem is always presented as a massive unsolvable thing that the government or someone with deep pockets needs to contribute focus to.

When Chrome did this they quickly highlighted how much control they have over what people view. Privacy focused open browsers will gain marketshare because of it.

I think a feature that allows you to not download specific apps from the store would be interesting.

The marketing aspects are particularly interesting. Kids don't really have the power to buy or convince an adult to buy. Parents are also only subject to things that are "learning" while users/kids only want things that are "fun". The product intersection of those two areas with quality are likely very small. Additionally, when kids and adults are generally excited about the same thing, it becomes less cool.

seems like a very small population

Do you also wheel around your monitor?

Is no one going to comment on why a desktop needs wheels?

Google and FB will likely copy this asap.

As usable data starts getting larger, the trade off between Excel and databases will get smaller.

This is the academic paper that is referenced in the article: https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...

I think this would work for a lot of task related and basic work flows. How would you imagine this working for more complex flows like developers or engineering?

It would also be interesting compare if a consumer could pay for a product without advertising vs having a product for "free" with advertising, does this finding still hold true?

For the desktop web Duckduckgo has a plugin that shows you all the trackers that are on a webpage and lets you block them. They also have a mobile web app that you can use as your default web search on mobile. https://duckduckgo.com/app

Sure - my point is that you could design the experiment such that it could. It's much more scientific.

MAB seems to find a local maxima subject to input biases whereas an AB test is aimed to figure out a scientific truth and isolates out all potential biases in the system. I'd be curious to hear where a MAB approach and an AB test did not yield the same results and why that happened.

Totally get the logic, just wondering if customers would feel weird if a company they worked with didn't have an "office".

I wonder how their customers reacted to this, especially as a b2b company.

Agree. To add, if we accepted this as the attribution source of truth, there would be large conflicts of interest from companies like Google who own an ad network and also Chrome. They would basically claim all Adwords traffic is awesome.

Google, FB, Amazon, Microsoft is severely limited in China as examples.

@theredbox is saying that China can ship its tech to the world, but the world can't currently ship its tech to it (great firewall). That seems unfair.