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This presumes that the customers of the ad industry would stop buying ads without this personal data. It's an arms race, advertisers buy ads from the best source and more personal information makes your market better. Eliminating this arms race won't make advertisers stop advertising.



True ... but then it would no longer be ad-tech. Just advertising.




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