Hmm stunned disbelief, I tell ya. How on earth did anyone ever think this could happen, big corpo putting ads inside the most hyper targeted machine the world has ever seen. How could they ever decide to do this

If any of you dumb fucks don’t think we already live in a surveillance state, you are part of the problem

…and do they sell data, including video, to law enforcement and insurance?

Sincerely, A person who recently was in a fender bender and was not surprised at all when Progressive shared “incident footage” from a Ring camera across the street at a location completely unrelated to the fender bender

(They ARE selling your data, folks. NEVER trust big tech to act in your best interest)

Lol they’ve already announced funding (or intent to fund?) for reviving coal mining

OpenAI said in a blog post that the product results it surfaces are “organic and unsponsored, ranked purely on relevance to the user,” and that it will charge merchants a “small fee” for completed purchases.

…for now. Remember the free open promise of the 1990s/2000s internet? This will get enshittified the same way, but faster. Once OpenAI corners it, I confidently promise they will jack prices wayyy up and monopolize it just like any other corpo.

Jesus we fucking tried this, didn’t we? SDI. Reagan’s Star Wars.

DuckDuckGo browser my friend. The “Duck Player” feature plays YT videos in-browser without ads or other tracking

Converted, huh. It’s not already there?

Wait, free users of Spotify could not pick which track they listen to???

Cars have been giant smartphones {tracking and data collection gold mines} for years now

This means they have already acquired this and are currently using it, and have been for years

B I R D S A R E N T R E A L

Lmao no fucking SHIT.

I eagerly await the day when a majority of people understand that all technology will eventually be used against them by the state.

S L A U G H T E R B O T S

Ashley is a senior policy reporter for Ars Technica, dedicated to tracking social impacts of emerging policies and new technologies. She is a Chicago-based journalist with 20 years of experience.

And yet, despite 20 years of experience, the only side Ashley presents is the technologists’ side.

Duh. You’re a whole new level of stupid if you thought this wouldn’t inevitably lead to advertising

Merkley’s the man

Great seeing the word “woke” in an executive order of the President of the United fuckin States

Well well well who ever could have seen this coming

If “people” = the bro-ligarchs, then sure