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  • puts ads based on what you’re searching.

    they don’t actually […] process it in any way

    Well, this is processing the data, isn’t it?

    Back in the days, some decades ago when Amazon “invented” the tracking and processing of every single mouse click in their online shop, it was big news in the IT world. First from a technical point of view, because it needed some serious computing power on their end, and it used up some bandwidth on the user’s end, which was much more limited at that time than today. And from a data privacy point of view, because it was a huge step towards this world of total surveillance, constantly ongoing manipulation, behaviour based advertisement, George Orwell etc.

    Today we have gotten used to all that, even so much that such extreme statements have become possible, somewhat…

    they don’t actually do anything with the data


















  • What do these idiots think they’re gonna do when a good chunk of the population loses their homes and comfortable lives because of them?

    They buy your houses from you and rent them right back to you. That’s what Nestle has done with the poor farmers and all their land (not just their houses) in Romania.

    The world is beyond capitalism. It is a new feudalism now. Yanis Varoufakis was right.

    They employ even more police (and more guns for them), so that you don’t get no funny ideas.

    But if you get funny ideas anyway, they have surveillance of all phones and internet. You have read your George Orwell, haven’t you?