Brendan Eich: evaluation

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…I'd love to get your explanation. Again, I don't ask this because I don't have thoughts myself, but I want to hear from you. Why is it bad to be tracked? People sometimes that they're savvy they'll remember Richelieu's epigram. I don't know if it really came from him. Give me six sentences from the most honest man, I'll find the way to hang him. Snowden changed things. People realized, wait a minute, there are violations of federal law here. Google engineers who've been using telco dark fiber without encrypting their backbone traffic were outraged, I think. Data breaches bother people and the third party problem I mentioned, those embedded pixels and all those embedded scripts, you don't know where your data is going. It's not just that it's tracking you to give you a better deal or to make your ads more personalized on a website. That data is flying out the window. It's going into stuff that is available to not only the dark web but just available publicly. The horrifying story, I won't name names, we have a vendor at Brave that has information on people. It shared it with Experian. We didn't know this was happening. I don't know if there's a privacy law that was breached. We believe their privacy policy was breached by their own action or their setting of this as a default that we didn't know we had to opt-out of. Experian is just breach city. These are jokes. It's criminal. I don't know if it's literally criminal but it feels criminal.…

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