Isn’t it fun how our years of combined nerd opposition toward surveillance of Internet infrastructure was a total waste of time when all it took was flashing so

Isn’t it fun how our years of combined nerd opposition toward surveillance of Internet infrastructure was a total waste of time when all it took was flashing some cash to make advertisers implement even more intrusive client-side surveillance in a distributed infinitely-scalable way instead? Even our response to the Snowden releases was to get Google Analytics running over TLS and to make it even harder for a normal solo person to host a website that isn’t through one of the major silos.