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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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Take commercial surveillance. Google didn't *have* to switch from content-based ads (which chose ads based on your search terms and the contents of webpages) to surveillance-based ads (using dossiers on your searches, emails, purchases and physical movements to target ads to you personally).
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2026-03-10T16:29:13.706Z