Thread · 2 tweets · 15 Feb 2020

Robin Berjon @robinberjon · 15 Feb 2020

Replying to @Paul__Walsh and @kickstand, @thezedwards, @samtingleff, @othermaciej, @BrendanEich, @aripap, @ewlamy, @SarahSluis, @w3c

Oh yeah, the web is totally in a fucked up place right now. One of the problems is that the structure of personal data markets is inherently monopolistic due to the nonrival nature of data and network effects in the value of datasets.

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Robin Berjon @robinberjon · 15 Feb 2020

So the tracking industry trends towards monopoly. Removing the ability to track cross-site is a big improvement there. Of course, the web has other problems in parallel so it's to just jump out of the frying pan.