Yeah, back in the day you'd be considered tin-foil hat if you thought you were being tracked and surveilled online. These days, you're tin-foil hat if you think

Yeah, back in the day you'd be considered tin-foil hat if you thought you were being tracked and surveilled online. These days, you're tin-foil hat if you think you can avoid it. Microsoft was the big bad wolf, but at the time, most of what they did that was so horrible was capture market share. You could still use a computing device and then leave it alone and it would leave you alone, it wasn't trying to constantly ping you and notify you and make you feel left out and use all kinds of dark patterns to feed the addiction. These days, computing devices feel more like trickster adversaries than clunky-but-useful tools.