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snek_case • today at 1:48 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

I like the spirit, but in that spirit, I also think that data brokers, and any private business collecting personal data on people, should be highly illegal. If our governments represented us, they would have banned this long ago.

With respect to fully banning ads online, that would probably kill meta and force a major restructuring of Google. Probably hundreds of thousands of layoffs across the tech industry, so they unfortunately wouldn't do it.