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Published · transcript-backedBrendan Eich: evaluation
15 Feb 2022 Acquired The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave)
“I picked on them because they became the biggest but—and buying DoubleClick was an earlier sort of Rubicon they crossed because—I think Sergei told a friend of mine in 2003, oh, we would never do like tracking for ads on publisher pages that tied into our search ads.”
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- Brendan Eich
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- evaluation
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- 15 Feb 2022
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…You'll do that, but— I used to do talks at conferences, I asked how many people were using Chrome, how many people knew this, how many people opted out. The hands were numerous and then they started falling and then there were red faces and consternation. This is not just Google. I picked on them because they became the biggest but—and buying DoubleClick was an earlier sort of Rubicon they crossed because—I think Sergei told a friend of mine in 2003, oh, we would never do like tracking for ads on publisher pages that tied into our search ads. We would never track across the web. That would be evil. Well, it changed. The definition of evil shifts depends on how large the incentives are.…
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