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Ghostery, NoScript, Adblock Plus, Better Privacy, CustomizeGoogle and ixquick. + privoxy/GlimmerBlocker & http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Those who spy do not call it spying, it is those upon whom the spies spy who rightly call it spying. Spies call spying a slew of disarming terms: Forensics, investigation, probes, intelligence, surveillance, research, observation, analysis, data gathering, data analysis, data mining, log filing, system testing, polling, questioning, interrogation, looking into, checking, double-checking, reviewing, verification, authentication, testing, evaluation, protection of the customer, the citizen, the nation, and more misleading terms being invented and deployed all the time. Apologists for spying have an ancient and wide range of justifications for the practice and never admit it is not needed or wanted by the targets of spying. Instead, spies have forever claimed their offense is on behalf of the innocents who do not understand how dangerous the world is. Now, like any other corporation, they have a product which they sell to a market. The market is advertisers -- that is, other businesses. What keeps the media functioning is not the audience. They make money from their advertisers. And remember, we're talking about the elite media. So they're trying to sell a good product, a product which raises advertising rates. And ask your friends in the advertising industry. That means that they want to adjust their audience to the more elite and affluent audience. That raises advertising rates. So what you have is institutions, corporations, big corporations, that are selling relatively privileged audiences to other businesses. Well, what point of view would you expect to come out of this? I mean without any further assumptions, what you'd predict is that what comes out is a picture of the world, a perception of the world, that satisfies the needs and the interests and the perceptions of the sellers, the buyers and the product.