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Adam from Ghostery here. Huge Mozilla fan. Great job on Lightbeam! Just wanted to say that Ghostery doesn't block anything by default, either. We believe that people should be educated on the trackers and have the tools at their disposal to make a meaningful choice about whether or not they want to allow it to continue - hence our tracker profiles.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks for doing an IAMA, and I love VICE's mission of exposing younger generations to new content that helps them to critically analyze the media around them. I've followed your company since it was just busting out of Montreal.

Do you see VICE as the next MTV?

Has your outlook on media and popular culture changed since partnering with media giants like WPP?

In a consumer-goods infused "hipster" culture, what does selling out mean today?

Finally, what are your plans for Motherboard/Creator's Project once the copromotion deals run up? Will they change brand partners, or will they get folded into other ventures?

I just got back from a long trip around the country on an old Suzuki. While most of the Angels I met didn't look down on the bike, there was still a barrier...

But I noticed I knew way more about my bike than a lot of them. If my old POS broke down on the side of the road I could fix her. The new baggers are basically computers on wheels - not that that is a bad thing, it's just an observation.

I can kind of understand that a lot of MCs have aging populations and the bigger, more comfy rides accommodate for old wounds and older bodies belonging to people who still, at the end of the day, just want to keep riding. And I'm cool with that.

Keep up the good work, man. It's such an exciting field, I love working in it.

We make a product that allows you to basically never have to use Excel again in marketing. Weird place to pitch, but hell - why not? You can basically join cross-brand, cross-channel data in any form, API or no API, and automate reports going in/out of the system. So, if you're dedicating tons of hours to pulling reports every week/month, you can get rid of these mundane tasks and make them more efficient by killing off human error. This allows analysts, like yourself, to spend more time extracting insights rather than compiling the same stuff from Excel all the time.

Seconded.