> This is wildly illegal and incredibly immoral. The paper claims that by simply reading an article, you agree that you can never, ever sue them for virtually any reason, and that you have consented to effectively unlimited surveillance and commercial exploitation of your private data.
#law #privacy #journalism #LAtimes
The #uBlockOrigin filter feels a bit beyond my competency, but I tried simply turning off JS with uBlock. Seemed to work other than losing some media. Am I missing something?
When it comes to terrible web practices, it takes a lot to shock me. I literally wrote the book on the subject. Last night, I encountered a piece of fuckery and I can't get it out of my head, because it's such a perfect storm of outrageous conduct and institutional decay.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/26/abandon-hope/#all-ye-who-enter-here
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