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by xg15 17 days ago
> That wasn't possible with just the internet

We have trackers everywhere now. If you have access to that data, it seems very possible to identify every person who watches certain categories of YouTube videos or follows certain groups of people on social media and mark them according to political criteria.

It's a bit ironic that everyone writes about "surveillance capitalism", but there is still no connection made to actual surveillance...