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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026

But the reality is that this is costing *you* money. It's one of the dirtiest, most profitable scams in the entire tech economy, which is saying something, because that is an economy that is *made of scams*: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026

Unlike older ads, which were targeted based on *content* (say, an ad for a hotel might run next to a newspaper article about a beachside town) modern ads are built on surveillance.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026

Companies like Google amass vast, nonconsensual dossiers on the personal characteristics and behavior of billions of people, supplemented with information purchased from the unregulated data-broker sector.

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