Nicol Wistreich on Nostr: “Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we look up, who else is reading ...
“Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we look up, who else is reading from the same address. All this allows it to deduce the most intimate information about our lives…Public libraries have some of this same information and guard it fiercely, but Amazon feeds it into an insatiable machine designed to extract maximum profit.”
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