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howunfortunate • yesterday at 11:50 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> See, the thing is, it’s not about you at all. It’s not really about the ads anymore either. Nobody cares about you. And if the police or your government happen to care, I’ll gladly take their money too.

> I look at all this data and I don’t see people. I see patterns. Patterns emerging out of patterns. A living, digital fractal state of the economy, society and human psyche. The crystal ball of the 21st century and it’s made of silicon! That’s the product.

> And to the highest bidder it goes!

> What does that make you then? A gear? An ox? A volunteer?

This does absolutely nothing for me. If this resonates with you, can you explain?

I can understand worry about a tyrannical government, and if you have something like a gambling addiction I can understand about ads. But the meta-level privacy fear about deidentified patterns - I just plain don't get it.


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floorsthelimit • today at 12:18 AM

If every website you ever visits knows it is you, exactly what links you clicked on, and what content you viewed, forever, are you truly ok with that?

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