By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/07/2026But these same companies insist that "legitimate purpose" can't *possibly* include "remembering the fact that you told us not to spy on you the last time you were here." 15/ 1303
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/07/2026That's why, every time you click through to one of many popular websites, you get a dickover, and the only way to make it stop is to "consent" to being spied upon. But it doesn't have to be this way. 16/ 1240
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/07/2026While the right answer to this kind of rampant lawlessness is stonking fines and even the corporate death penalty for repeat offenders, internet users have a myriad of options available to them for banishing dickovers to the scrapheap of history. 17/ 1261
