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Google wants you to agree to a program to reduce web tracking by just letting Google have all your browsing data directly (meow.social)

submitted 1 year ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A thought I had a while back with google (and any other tech company I guess) with the same emotion that Rorschach has just before Dr. Manhattan disintegrates him: if they’ve already won, aka achieved virtual dominance over how we experience the web, then fine. Fucking break me with your personalised ads. Show me deep cut references from my personal life as emotional leverage. Orchestrate my nightmares with jingles. Show me the logical end of advertising. Just fucking end the human experience entirely since you’ve monetised all our dignity away anyway. Anything less than that is just an insult to my ability to hope.

Anyway yeah I hate this. Big ick