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Excellent article, but I think it misses the point that most people are aware that they are getting free sites and tools like gmail, reddit, twitter, facebook f

Excellent article, but I think it misses the point that most people are aware that they are getting free sites and tools like gmail, reddit, twitter, facebook for the price of being tracked an advertised to. What's the alternative? Paying for everything? Just install an ad blocker, turn off JavaScript or if you are really paranoid, pick one of the many linux distributions to load up into VirtualBox and browse the web that way, changing your distro daily. Use various VPN services on top of it. Use Tor. Most people don't care enough to do anything like this.

notechback 7y ago
I doubt that most people understand that using Gmail (or similar) means their emails are analysed, much less that they are tracked across the web and that such info is assembled by hundreds of companies and sold and resold many times. Most people in San Francisco might understand it. Do most people in Chennai, Nairobi, Rio or even in Smalltown, USA understand that?
- okareaman 7y ago
  I think you underestimate people
  - Shared404 7y ago
    As much as I would like to think that, I have to disagree. I've spoken to many somewhat technically savvy people who when informed $product sells your information, are shocked.