“Just tracking and stuff” is a ridiculous understatement. The web of today is primarily a surveillance tool used to cram advertisements down our throats at the cost of anything else. The big players have become so good at it that they can identify you uniquely even if you don’t use their service, because the data collected is sold everywhere else.
It has turned us all into products.
Some of us still remember the glory of the early 90’s internet. The tooling needed to surveil wasn’t there yet, and most content was about being creative, expressive, and fun. Corporations have robbed us of that and it feels like every fucking website now is just another tool to commodify you.
Hey man, I agree with everything you’re saying and I genuinely mourn the freedom of expression that the web has lost. I was using “just tracking and stuff” as a shorthand as part of a conversation, cos I was just asking specifically about what I was missing from what people were talking about.
“Just tracking and stuff” is a ridiculous understatement. The web of today is primarily a surveillance tool used to cram advertisements down our throats at the cost of anything else. The big players have become so good at it that they can identify you uniquely even if you don’t use their service, because the data collected is sold everywhere else.
It has turned us all into products.
Some of us still remember the glory of the early 90’s internet. The tooling needed to surveil wasn’t there yet, and most content was about being creative, expressive, and fun. Corporations have robbed us of that and it feels like every fucking website now is just another tool to commodify you.
Hey man, I agree with everything you’re saying and I genuinely mourn the freedom of expression that the web has lost. I was using “just tracking and stuff” as a shorthand as part of a conversation, cos I was just asking specifically about what I was missing from what people were talking about.
Yeah I get it, not trying to attack you but rather help you understand that what I think you’re missing may just be the scale of the problem.