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Why are you not satisfied? Do you have additional data on why this could be a real vulnerability on their end?

A significant portion of content creators do it as a full time job. Ads is a stable revenue stream for these content creators. You as a consumer are free to move to any decentralized video platform you like, but the main bottleneck for any significant shift in market share depends on content creators, and ultimately, on advertisers.

> Roku alleges Google has asked it to favor YouTube music results from voice commands made on the Roku remote while the YouTube app is open, even if the user's music preference is set to default to another music app, like Pandora.

How else do you use voice search for a music video on Youtube? If I open youtube and do a voice search. I'm expecting the search to be constrained to the app.

My original comment said:

> So if I just assign the majority label to all of the population of a given demographics group, I would get the same result right? i.e., predicting "left" for all minorities under 30. You would also get ~70% accuracy.

I meant that even if you control age, gender, ethnicity, a very trivial predictor (i.e., always predicting the majority label) could yield similar performance. What I meant to say was that their model may not perform as well as they made it sound.

My interpretation of control is fixing all other variables (the ones they mentioned) except for the one being measured (political orientation). If that's not what they did I'm happy to learn.

Please state what you want to say. No need to be passive aggressive.

> "Accuracy remained high (69%) even when controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity."

So if I just assign the majority label to all of the population of a given demographics group, I would get the same result right? i.e., predicting "left" for all minorities under 30. You would also get ~70% accuracy.

Because in one case the target is the individual. The other case your data gets aggregated and sold as bulk in the form of ad impressions (tracking).

A better comparison would be, the gov uses your census data to mail you flyers.

I think the concept of privacy directly conflicts with anti-censorship. The most private system is also 100% censored.

Sounds like this would have a negative impact for startups where the majority of the compensation comes from equity right?

> Can we scrape Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook in order to stand up a competing service that strips out all the ads?

How are you going to pay for it? Subscription model doesn't work for search/social networks.

> Below, another group of migrant workers drink bear in their dormitory after their shift in 2013.

They really need to proof read their articles.

I think so (unless the job is remote), I think expense has to be taken into consideration when salary is being calculated.