Joe Fabisevich :verified: on Nostr: I've been saying for over a decade that the most worrying part of the online ad-based ...

I've been saying for over a decade that the most worrying part of the online ad-based economy is that we're constructing digital panopticons. You may trust Google with your data (I don't), but wait until the government starts leveraging the same techniques for spying or persuasion. Well we don't have to wait any longer, and I have no doubt that this has been happening in the shadows for much longer than we think and is being used against American citizens too. https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets-and-vladimir-putin