makes sense, a lot of bitcoin companies talk about how they don’t want to hold customer funds, so i could see how tech companies feel the same way about data.

i also wonder if this shift towards privacy is related to the increasing focus on paid products and services.

YouTube has really started ramping up their creator monetization suite, and has started promoting their paid, ad-free version. Twitter is in the same boat too now.

Maybe we’re reaching a tipping point in the tech industry where it’s more profitable to ask people to pay up front than to use their data against them behind their backs.