How many products are there where privacy is a core part of why it’s successful?

I’m leaving scale of “success” ambiguous so I get more answers.

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

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Apple is imperfect on privacy but they do a better job than Google.

Signal's core value prop is privacy.

And of course, it's a big deal for Q 🙂, success will be a story told in time.

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Signal doesn’t make money though right? Feel like a public good doesn’t really count. Barely any of my friends stay when I force them to try, and when they change phones never install :/

I’m pro privacy, and in a lot of cases necessary for business value. Just think it isn’t enough to win the market.

The difficulty of baking privacy into communication tools is that communication tools only have a stickiness as strong as their network effect. Privacy is rarely a motivating factor unless you understand why you need it, or retroactively wish you had it when you didn't and it mattered.

A small, intransigent minority can force the adoption of privacy preserving technology by leveraging the minority rule. I wrote about this in the context of Libra here:

A small, intransigent minority can force the adoption of privacy preserving technology by leveraging the minority rule. I wrote about this in the context of Libra here: https://blog.agostbiro.net/2019/06/mapping-crypto-minority-rule/