“you are not an individual” kind of messages can be offending, but this time, it seems that it is for a noble cause: make people react and claim their individuality, rejecting systems that abuse them.
Even me was offended, as indeed, I use the web from time to time, I connect to servers (web browser) without a VPN so I give them my address and cross-referencing enable companies to have an accurate profile of me.
Even the least “techie” person use the web by necessity and get affected.
Presence of advertising everywhere means it does actually work, otherwise, companies would have gave up, so let’s claim that we are all guided by what advertising tell to us, making us nothing more but data off an ad sense hard drive, that evolve according to messages that appear in a small square at the right of the article we are reading.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Yes, I intended “you are not an individual” to be provocative. It’s built into the way the industry even talks. “We can target individual profiles,” “We have a database of 50 million profiles,” etc. Switching from “people” to “profile” makes it easier to do things that are morally questionable.
“you are not an individual” kind of messages can be offending, but this time, it seems that it is for a noble cause: make people react and claim their individuality, rejecting systems that abuse them.
Even me was offended, as indeed, I use the web from time to time, I connect to servers (web browser) without a VPN so I give them my address and cross-referencing enable companies to have an accurate profile of me.
Even the least “techie” person use the web by necessity and get affected.
Presence of advertising everywhere means it does actually work, otherwise, companies would have gave up, so let’s claim that we are all guided by what advertising tell to us, making us nothing more but data off an ad sense hard drive, that evolve according to messages that appear in a small square at the right of the article we are reading.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Yes, I intended “you are not an individual” to be provocative. It’s built into the way the industry even talks. “We can target individual profiles,” “We have a database of 50 million profiles,” etc. Switching from “people” to “profile” makes it easier to do things that are morally questionable.