Agreed. We are getting what we want...good and hard. Looking at it from the outside, I wonder just how large the gap can become between what we need the net fo

Agreed. We are getting what we want...good and hard. Looking at it from the outside, I wonder just how large the gap can become between what we need the net for -- and what we're getting. What these companies seem to be doing isn't delivering value as much as it is preying on the ignorance of the average computer user. Even the innocuous-sounding "you get this for free, and all you have to do is see a commercial now and then, isn't that cool?" turns out to be a tracking system undreamed-of by any dystopian writer in the history of fiction. Perhaps that situation of customer ignorance will change over time.