08/24/2019
NEW YORK TIMES WRITER TRACKS THE TRACKERS WITH A SPECIAL BROWSER -- AND FINDS NEWSPAPER SITES ARE THE WORST OFFENDERS. Now read what one comment says on the NYT web page:
AhBrightWings
ClevelandAug. 23
"Looking at this picture of just a few hours online, what stands out to me now is how ordinary a scene it depicts: I didn’t have to visit any shady sites or make any untoward searches — I just had to venture somewhere, anywhere, and I was watched." “Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.” ― George Orwell, 1984 “He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding, they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm because it left no residue behind.” ― George Orwell, 1984 "The enormity of what was demanded of them..." Orwell looked into his moment and predicted our reality. With every passing day, it's clear he understood the fundamental mechanisms by which we would fall. Because nothing is even technically "demanded" of us. We simply acquiesced in our own undoing. At every turn we place convenience before safety. That bill is coming due. Soon
I pulled back the curtain on digital tracking. What I found was staggering.
