Internet before: “Never share your personal information online.”

Internet now: “We require that you fully dox yourself on every single website you visit and service you use so we and our 1729 tracking companies can stalk and build a profile on you across the web. Oh, and by the way, your personal info on something you used once two years ago just got breached and is for sale on dark web forums.”

@MOULE

We should never have allowed advertising on the internet. That's when it all went south.

@sparseMatrix @MOULE I'll even say no advertisement anywhere, ads on our streets destroyed our minds.

The only "ads" I wanna see in town are for the local market, the sewing club or the guitar lessons my neighbor gives

@MOULE - With no thanks to those Damn Tracking Cookies. At least here is one helper I use to remove those Stinking Trackers: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
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@MOULE Exactly 💯. Unfortunately, I believe the only way to combat this is to support and educate people on anonymous cyber security, open source alternatives, and service decentralization. I love that #activitypub / #fediverse does practically all three of these. 😆❤️
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It's weird how the narrative keeps changing based on what's convenient for those in power.