re: You Are Now Paying Internet Companies to Sell Your Browsing History to Advertisers

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A person's privacy should be of no benefit to anyone other than themselves without written permission. If we had any real representation in gvt and not lobbyist dong suckers, this is the way the world would work.

The high tech world of marketing and social media will eventually be the ruin of mankind.

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We almost did, at least when it comes to ISP's, Republicans and Trump decided to stop it.

I know it is sacrosanct around here to only speak ill of our former president, but this was something Obama got mostly right given there was zero chance of passing actual legislation or getting Republicans to be cooperative on the issue because of politics, and, well, what we just saw.

....Cue the swarm of triggered posters descending down on this thread to attack him and my statement.