Here’s a great blog post by Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) explaining why people like me install adblockers the second after they install a browser, and very often run the likes of Piholes to also filter adtech and malware at the DNS level where possible.
I understand a lot of online publications rely on ad revenue (and I pay for some of them), but between them being a #tracking vector and one of the main ways of how certain companies build their dossiers on you, them being used as a #spyware delivery vector (which is not new, btw) is about 15 bridges too far.
But hey, apparently #1984 was an instruction manual and not a warning.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/17/mercenary-spyware/
#SurveillanceCapitalism
Timo Geusch
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2026-10-18 14:33:31 UTC
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