Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch.
"We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you're looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we'll probably opt you back in when you aren't paying attention."
I think wanting stuff for free and not wanting ads don't go together. Either we pay or we watch ads or use open source.
No, actually, fuck all that. Ads are not a necessity for things to be free. Do you want that one black mirror episode? Cuz that's how we get that one black mirror episode.
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