I do think that fewer things need to be free. But there’s no reason to believe that free means we must lose our privacy. OTA television, for example, had been

I do think that fewer things need to be free. But there’s no reason to believe that free means we must lose our privacy. OTA television, for example, had been providing decades worth of extremely expensive programming for free. And this lost us absolutely no privacy. There is no reason that ads have to invade our privacy. They can go back to targeting based on broad geographical and age demographics. Let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s say the government passes a law that says that ads cannot be based on any factors more privacy invasive than your zip code and 10 year age range. It’s not like companies would stop paying for ads. They would pay less, but probably still enough to maintain free services, like Google did in its initial days.