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Has anyone else reached a point where online tracking (aka surveillance economy) has become debilitating, online, outside a forum such as HN? Interacting onlin
by idatum 5y ago
Has anyone else reached a point where online tracking (aka surveillance economy) has become debilitating, online, outside a forum such as HN?
Interacting online, searching, just clicking a link, has become....exhausting actually, because of the sense of being tracked. For an ad.
It is dehumanizing.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoThe internet has become like Cheers: A place where everybody[1] knows your name[2]. ----- [1] Or at least everybody big - all the FAANGs. [2] And your occupation, and your shopping habits, and your family, and your car, and your address, and your hobbies, and...