Thread · 3 tweets · 5 Aug 2021

Hmmm, sorry but no. By your rule, no data collection can ever be good. Just because adtech has tried every bullshit way doesn't mean it can't be done. Things like the NYU study, @themarkup's Citizen Browser, @mozilla Rally are all good examples of how you can do it right.

Long, looooong before all this privacy shit show, people had figured out that you could do research on human subjects that learns very intimate things, and do it right.

Unfortunately, some hopelessly naive privacy folks who had never heard of design tried to turn that into consent for whatever. That's dumb. But the OG still works