In-reply-to » Reading over Hacker News, I was not previously aware of server-side tagging (tracking). The engineers working for that Mountain View office are clever bastards, I will give them that. It illustrates their disrespect towards those who wish not to be tracked and their determination to impose themselves by any possible means. I will do my best to circumvent that technology, also. Surveillance capitalism must not succeed.

@movq Precisely! 2007, with the introduction of smartphones, was the very beginning of, in my opinion, the software and hardware industry’s decline; from user-hostile interfaces and planned obsolescence, to boundless tracking and everything in between. They really began to rear their ugly heads sometime after 2012, when flatness and bright colors became the stylistic standard across tech. I believe the rise of this stylistic standard has been tech’s attempt to seem (disingenuously) innocuous at face value while hiding their true intentions.

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