# Privacy adoption will follow the internet's open-system adoption curve

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-11-15
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Priv8 Virtual Privacy Summit 2021: Featuring Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Steven Waterhouse, and more! (Orchid Labs)
- **Watch at:** 04:45:33 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eqn72dqzs&t=17133s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2021-11-15-privacy-adoption-will-follow-the-internet-s-open-s-zcyy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Privacy adoption will follow the internet's open-system adoption curve," Priv8 Virtual Privacy Summit 2021: Featuring Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Steven Waterhouse, and more! (Orchid Labs), 15 Nov 2021, 04:45:33. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eqn72dqzs&t=17133s

## Quote — verbatim

> I'm actually weirdly a little optimistic just looking at our history of tool adoption... when the internet really came about... people did adopt internet because the convenience of an open system, the value of an open system... even though it wasn't very clear, somehow it was perceived as valuable.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Responding to JJ's pessimism that privacy/convenience trade-offs block mainstream adoption; he cites the clunky early web winning over polished "fat software."