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Every site that has these pop ups is literally doing so because they’re tracking you. Staking you. Surveilling you. They might be doing it on behalf of a third

Every site that has these pop ups is literally doing so because they’re tracking you. Staking you. Surveilling you. They might be doing it on behalf of a third party, but they’re still doing it.

charcircuit 4y ago
>Stalking you The website is not following "you" around, nor is it intimidating you. "You" are the one visiting the website. >Survieling you The website does not have cameras on "you" or have people following "you" around. The website compiles information that "you" have given it. If Alice tells Bob her name and Bob remembers it, Bob is not surveilling Alice.
- oarsinsync 4y ago
  > The website compiles information that "you" have given it. If Alice tells Bob her name and Bob remembers it, Bob is not surveilling Alice. Bob also remembers Alice's height, weight, eye colour, hair colour, hair length, skin pigmentation, any spots, piercings, shoe size, shoes, clothes, jewellery, any other accessories, smells, gait, and fingerprints. Alice didn't intend to give Bob all this stuff, but it was all there for the taking, so Bob took it all. He took photos and videos and audio recordings of everything. Bob then sold a copy of all of this information on to everyone who paid for it. Bob does this to everyone that comes anywhere near his home. He also convinced a lot of his neighbours to install his equipment in their homes and businesses, so he captures all of this information about vast numbers of people, not just Alice. Fuck Bob. Charlie comes along and agrees, fuck Bob, and passes a rule to make Bob et al put up a sign saying they're doing all of this, and gain explicit consent for all of the unnecessary information they're 'compiling'. So Bob does it in the most painful way possible, and now some people are mad at Charlie, because Charlie's the one who made the rule. Even though Bob 'compiles information that "you" have given it', and Bob's in malicious compliance of the rules. Fuck Bob.
  - charcircuit 4y ago
    Most people will think Bob did nothing wrong. This is how background checks work, how credit scores work, how history books work.

Every site that has these pop ups is literally doing so because they’re tracking you. Staking you. Surveilling you. They might be doing it on behalf of a third party, but they’re still doing it.

charcircuit 4y ago

>Stalking you The website is not following "you" around, nor is it intimidating you. "You" are the one visiting the website. >Survieling you The website does not have cameras on "you" or have people following "you" around. The website compiles information that "you" have given it. If Alice tells Bob her name and Bob remembers it, Bob is not surveilling Alice.

oarsinsync 4y ago
> The website compiles information that "you" have given it. If Alice tells Bob her name and Bob remembers it, Bob is not surveilling Alice. Bob also remembers Alice's height, weight, eye colour, hair colour, hair length, skin pigmentation, any spots, piercings, shoe size, shoes, clothes, jewellery, any other accessories, smells, gait, and fingerprints. Alice didn't intend to give Bob all this stuff, but it was all there for the taking, so Bob took it all. He took photos and videos and audio recordings of everything. Bob then sold a copy of all of this information on to everyone who paid for it. Bob does this to everyone that comes anywhere near his home. He also convinced a lot of his neighbours to install his equipment in their homes and businesses, so he captures all of this information about vast numbers of people, not just Alice. Fuck Bob. Charlie comes along and agrees, fuck Bob, and passes a rule to make Bob et al put up a sign saying they're doing all of this, and gain explicit consent for all of the unnecessary information they're 'compiling'. So Bob does it in the most painful way possible, and now some people are mad at Charlie, because Charlie's the one who made the rule. Even though Bob 'compiles information that "you" have given it', and Bob's in malicious compliance of the rules. Fuck Bob.
- charcircuit 4y ago
  Most people will think Bob did nothing wrong. This is how background checks work, how credit scores work, how history books work.