• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    it literally is their business; they make millions of dollars off of it.

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      2 days ago

      then that’s a problem we must solve. Because an adtech company should definitely not have any business in that.

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        2 days ago

        it has been solved for approximately 2 billion people on this planet, but those answers are not friendly to profit-seeking institutions like google and the only remaining institutions that can stop it are captured by the likes of google

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          1 day ago

          for the record, I don’t believe logging in with wechat is any better, and recaptcha is present on the utilities websites of my european country leaning towards china.