the new york times has an ongoing feature called "the privacy project" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html?login=email&auth=login-email which purports to give us all the information we need on the accelerating lack of privacy in the world...wonderful...laudable..informative..and, at bottom, profoundly hypocritical...which isn't a surprise coming from and elitist organ of power like the times...but still one that should be openly discussed...the salient point is there is no privacy...or, at least, no concerted attempt to invade that shred of privacy left even on a "privacy project" web page...
when i am on the "privacy project" the "tracking attempts blocked" icon appears in the address bar...when i click on the icon for the anti-tracking software ( an add on from duck duck go ) this is what i see...
and when i click on the "6 trackers blocked" this comes up...the graphic was too large for my snipping tool so ab.scorcardreseach.com is missing from the bottom of the photo...that is the sixth tracker...the point being the n y times is allowing third par5y cookies to be injected into my computer when i a m reading their sermons on privacy...or the sorrowful lack of it...so the hypocrites strike again...their editorial stance is biased anti-trump...which aligns with mast of their readership...myself included...however they are a commercial interest that is in business to make a profit, not disseminate objective fact..they all are...fox news has a store where you can buy books about the "deep state"...the wall street journal has a store where you can buy all sorts of neo-liberal crap...the new york times store sells a lot of new york memorabilia and both the times and the journal have "wine clubs" for their hyper elitist ( or wannabe ) readership wine snobs...so there is no real source of objective fact...just "news" tailored to world views from any political/social perspective and every fucking body wants to send me targeted advertising...this is why i have reverted to reading books eclectically and why this thing is off more than it is on anymore.
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