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baekdal jason_kint But that's not the situation. The marketplace is digital ads and legit publishers are 10% of that economy. At best. And the problem isn't even the product. User data, collected with consent, isn't a bad thing. It's the people downstream who are using it badly.Permalink On twitter.com
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baekdal jason_kint Imagine a different scenario: you make phones & the entire supply of minerals needed to craft them are in conflict zones. & suppliers mix what little isn't in w/what is. Sure, criticize the phone company for their bad behavior, but it's hard to see how they could act to fix it.Permalink On twitter.com
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baekdal jason_kint To be clear, I don't think that publishers lack responsibility and should be free of criticism, but they don't have leverage to create or transact on the alternative. There are more productive targets to push for change.Permalink On twitter.com
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baekdal jason_kint There's someone clearly in the wrong, pushing fraud into the economy in a way designed to make it indistinguishable from real business. When criminals are hidden downstream, victims shouldn't be responsible for them.Permalink On twitter.com
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baekdal jason_kint I find it difficult to argue that publishers should be doing the type of work that the FBI took months with numerous collaborators in the industry to do. There's more publishers can do, for sure, but they're not able to solve this problem.On twitter.com
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