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Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by AlexandrB on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:20AM (#19421785)
The ad-based content economy is beyond parody: the first thing I saw when I opened this article about poverty and privacy rights was a full-page, autoplay video ad for Lincoln cars. The whiplash between the content and the presentation was so severe I'm going to have to wear a neck brace.
Re:Trading privacy for survival is another tax on the poor by markdoubleyou on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:18PM (#19422992)
Privacy Badger detected 16 potential trackers, and uBlock stopped requests to 13 out of 30 domains the page tried to connect to. It's not usatoday.com levels of absurdity, but it's getting there.