Killing online surveillance with contextual ads

For chrissakes, can we stop talking about who the product is?

Cory Doctorow
5 min readApr 28, 2022

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A row of newspaper boxes on a lonely sidewalk; their windows are filled with the ‘falling binary’ Matrix waterfall effect.

The internet has ushered in an era of unprecedented invasive surveillance. Commercial operators large and small spy on us in every way and sell and give away and leak our data to criminals, cops, spies, advertisers and stalkers.

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