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.

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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.

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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Good question.

I’m torn between:

Does a good job minimizing information needed to complete task.

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Part of the business model can’t be harvesting user data.

Alright a good example, but in terms of market share it’s 0.16%

Wonder how much of that is illegal activity to.

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Brave pays you for advertising right?

Do they collect data to help targeting?

Not a product, doesn’t even store value 🤣

Not open source though.

Not sure if a trust assumption of privacy counts…

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I think privacy is being overrated as a necessary feature to own market share; however, it's necessary as a feature to own the largest market share of those that judiciously care about privacy.

google vs duckduckgo
gmail vs protonmail
wallet to wallet vs tonadocash

originally, banks

but absolutely not anymore

https

hear me out

yes it’s an open protocol, but think about how the majority of devs implement it: cloudflare

they’ve productized https into a freemium model

Standard Notes, Obsidian, Mullvad to name a few

Not to mention the $$$$ market for bespoke financial privacy

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