One of the founders of Comet was a friend of a friend. We chatted about it a bit. They really seemed like earnest folks who stumbled on a way to monetize virali

One of the founders of Comet was a friend of a friend. We chatted about it a bit. They really seemed like earnest folks who stumbled on a way to monetize virality in the early days of the internet. There was absolutely no framework for ethics of data collection and even they seemed kinda shocked at how easy it was to do back then. I think once the money was flowing in, it was too hard to stop.