In a world of perfect ad-targeting surveillance, it should be simple and cheap enough to simply bid up blank banners for your browser, just your browser and on

In a world of perfect ad-targeting surveillance, it should be simple and cheap enough to simply bid up blank banners for your browser, just your browser and on every site (maybe with some clever scripting to reject accidental clicks that would cost you a heavy premium). Unfortunately, this would do absolutely nothing about the actual point of the article: that GUIDs introduced for harmless ad targeting are the light by which government spying systems are seeing persons in the otherwise quite anonymous data streams.