By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026Where once Google measured its success by how quickly it could send you away from its site and out into the open internet, today's Google is a sticky-trap full of ways to keep you inside its walled garden. 16/ 215818
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026A decade ago, tech had 3 major approaches: I. Google's: let you do anything you want, but spy on you while you do it; II. Apple's: strictly control what you can do, but leave you alone to do it in private; and III. Facebook's: control everything you do, spy on you from asshole to appetite. 17/ 120739
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/06/2026Today, tech is undergoing a form of carcinization, in which every company is turning into a Facebook-crab: maximally surveillant *and* maximally controlling. Apple has added surveillance to its walled garden: pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/l... 18/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 14 Nov 2022 Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 113117
