Thread · 2 tweets · 12 Aug 2021

I get the sentiment. I think the case of companies blogging that FB ads are bad and then using them is clearly hypocritical. But even for PET companies I think we have to leave the door open to incrementalism, though perhaps in exchange for greater (and real) transparency.

Like: "Hey, we're a VPN company. We need to get new customers. We have trackers A & B — for now. We're telling you upfront and not hiding this in our privacy policy because we want to be trustworthy but we also have to make money so we can bring you awesome privacy tools."