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For the last 10 years or so I've pendulum swung between the positions "privacy at all cost!" and "what's the point, you can't win". Well, I'm tired now and the pendulum is stuck on the latter. All I care about now is blocking ads. Go ahead Mozilla, Google, Apple, whoever, if you can hoover up my worthless browsing data without me noticing, you can have it. I hope my reading HN and watching inane Youtube videos is worth something to you.



> I hope my reading HN and watching inane Youtube videos is worth something to you.

Oh it is. It definitely is


Only if they can use it for ads which was blocked in this discussion.

Of course in the real world odds are they can't block ads perfectly and thus the data has value.


The ad blocking might work however

1) Their customers (i.e. advertisers) don't necessarily know that, and they only care about aggregate

2) They still have your data which can be sold off to others who have other ways of pushing ads to you




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