Now I’m against ads like everyone else, but if a website needs ads to survive why not just use a system that doesn’t violate user privacy? I understand it might be more efficient to track individuals however if one were to just use site/topic specific ads wouldn’t that offer a degree of privacy? Idk please give me your opinion.
it WAS like that. ads were sold by demographics of readership.
then NSA and CIA got involved in big tech. i kid you not.
cloudflare was a project called honeypot to detect spam and bots. dept of homeland security director called the owner and suggested their data was valuable and they should start a company. the ceo tells the history in early interviews.
Source?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37348016
Scroll down a bit, it’s under the subtitle “Federal interest”.
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Someone already provided the source so idk what youre getting at
replied in the wrong thread. i got lots of replies with only “source?”