• Justdaveisfine@midwest.social
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, probably.

    Because of many factors, we’re seeing an erosion of the ‘third place’ which has been somewhat replaced or supplemented by the internet.

    But now the internet is turning into a watchdog which desperately wants to monetize you, or direct you towards something that it can monetize.

    Its hard to say while we’re in the middle of it, but I’m going to assume fifty years from now people will say we took privacy for granted and didn’t realize how influential algorithms really were.

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      2 days ago

      Privacy is the least of it, its just a means to an end for then. They are shaping our entire culture.