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Weinberg: Google and Facebook hold a duopoly over digital advertising
“In the world, there's a duopoly in digital advertising, and it's Google and Facebook owns basically all the digital advertising on the web, which relates to all this data profiles.”
The New York Times Increased Revenue by Dropping Behavioral Ads in Europe
“Like after GDPR in Europe, the New York Times Decided to ditch all the behavioral advertising and put up contextual advertising only and they increased revenue.”
Google Still Makes the Majority of Its Revenue From Contextual Keyword Ads
“And if you think about it, that's really still what Google does most of the time on Google search because all the search ads are still bid on keywords, right? They're just using your search history in addition to target ads of you on YouTube and Gmail and the …”
Government Surveillance Capacity Has Increased Massively Despite End-to-End Encryption
“If you look at, like, the overall information law enforcement and government has to surveil people, even with end-to-end encryption existing, it's way higher than it was 10 years ago, and way, way higher than it was 20 years ago before.”
Government Surveillance Relies Mostly on Commercial Corporate Data
“Corporate surveillance has really spiked and they're actually related because government surveillance actually uses
The data you give to corporations. That's where they're getting most of the data from anyway.”
DuckDuckGo Studies Found Location-Biased Search Results for Political Queries
“We've done several studies on political terms and people in different areas are seeing completely different results when you search for things like gun control or political candidate name or something like that.”
Google Tracks 80% of the Top Million Websites; Facebook Tracks 25%
“Google's on about 80% of the top million sites and a lot of that's Google Analytics, but also, like the Google Ads and stuff like that. Facebook's on 25% and that's this Facebook pixel where it could be the Facebook login, or just sites run Facebook ads, or th…”
One Third of Americans Have Taken Action to Reduce Digital Footprints
“And we've seen about a third of people take some actual significant action to reduce their digital footprint online in some Shape or form.”
Online Privacy Action Rates Do Not Vary by Age, Income, or Politics
“It's like across all demographics, a decently similar percentage have been taking action. I don't know what exactly threads them it's not education. It's not income. It's not age. It's not political affiliation. None of the main factors that we get on like the…”
Half of All Web Searches Now End Without a Click
“What's happened major in the last 10 years in search has been when you search, about half the time you don't click or use the actual web results.”
Maintaining a Full Web Crawl Index Costs Hundreds of Millions Annually
“To crawl the web and make that deep index is probably hundreds of million dollars a year. Maybe. Shane Parrish: Just to maintain it. Gabriel Weinberg: Just to maintain it. Arguably maybe a billion.”
Desktop Search Volume Has Not Decreased Despite Mobile's Explosive Growth
“So like the rise of mobile search queries has been great in the last 10 years, but desktop search queries actually haven't decreased.”
Post-Snowden Studies Showed Measurable Drops in Sensitive Wikipedia Search Queries
“Right after Snowden, there were two studies that were really interesting. One is people stopped searching terrorism related terms because presumably they feel that they might've been investigated if they searched. So the terms like Al Qaeda and stuff like that…”