By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026Virtually every vendor you engage with, from your landlord to your corner deli, wants you to install an app whose terms of service requires you to sign away *all* of your privacy rights, *forever*, in exchange for *nothing*. 1151
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026You get the same sandwich, but you "pay" more, in the form of all your private data, which is flushed into the unregulated data-broker sector to be weaponized against you in a thousand ways, including higher prices and lower wages: pluralistic.net/2026/07/11/y...pluralistic.netPluralistic: Workplace “flexibility” isn’t (11 Jul 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 170
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026Worse: because you have "entered into a contract" to "sell" your privacy rights, anything you do to claw those rights back is violation of your end of the contract. Using a tracker blocker like Privacy Badger makes *you* the cheater: privacybadger.orgprivacybadger.orgPrivacy Badger 160
