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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 529 days ago
Behavioural surveillance fuels the online ads industry.

It's possible to have ads without the current levels of surveillance. Many of us grew up in such a world.

The ads still work just as well without the Trojan Horse surveillance. Commerce does not suffer.

Of course so-called "tech" companies are terrified of a world where this computer-based surveillance to fuel online ads is competitive or tightly regulated. For them it is "unthinkable". For some of us subjected to this nonsense, it is easily thinkable. It is fresh in the memory.