We accepted surveillance as default

Article

• Argues society normalized web surveillance as the default, not a conscious choice.
• Contrasts Apple’s ATT (simple, effective) with cookie consent UX nightmares.
• Calls out how web architecture entangles tracking with rendering.

Discussion

• Consensus: ad-funded web makes surveillance economically inevitable.
• Apple ATT praised as rare example of friction-free privacy control.
• Commenters note WHATWG may be deliberately co-mingling JS with rendering to block tracker-blocking.
• Several couldn’t load the page; irony of AI-written surveillance article noted.

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