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By the first time they see the Amazon links, it is already too late, information they might have expected to be local and personal has already been transmitted
by georgemcbay 14y ago
By the first time they see the Amazon links, it is already too late, information they might have expected to be local and personal has already been transmitted to the Internet to be see by who-knows-who.
I don't agree with Stallman on everything, but I do feel increasingly uneasy with nearly all aspects of modern computing when it comes to privacy and so I support him in calling this sort of thing out.
- lotu 14y agoBut the same thing could be said for things like gmail. A person might assume that the mail messages they send are private but Google "reads" them and shows relevant ads next to your mail.