Thread · 3 tweets · 7 Jun 2021

They are representing users who don't think that others are entitled to exploiting their data. Last I checked numbers, this was an overwhelming majority of people. I don't want a subscription-funded world. Ads don't have to be invasive to be efficient — that's just lazy.

Also, Google has done way, way more to hurt the digital ad ecosystem than Apple could ever hope to do. On taxes: totally agreed, but then it's the same both ways.

I don't understand the "smoke screen and short-termist" thing. That seems like an apt description of the ad industry's approach to data.