I think this is fear mongering in the extreme. Facebook, Twitter and Google have persuaded all of the major internet sites to add code to their pages in the ho

I think this is fear mongering in the extreme. Facebook, Twitter and Google have persuaded all of the major internet sites to add code to their pages in the hope that it will drive more page views. At this point they have implemented enough code to reap the same level of benefit that you might get from passively MITM’ing all internet traffic. What’s “worse”, is that Facebook and Google are campaigning heavily to move all web traffic to encrypted. The end result: a “more secure” internet that just happens to fend off a competitive threat. The author should be ashamed of themselves. I think this falls under the “relative privation” fallacy. Google and FB are peerless when it comes to surveillance.