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  1. Adblocking: How About Nah?

    Article In this article, the author discusses the ethics of using an ad blocker, and highlighting the position that ad blockers give users...

  2. Advertising is a cancer on society

    Article In this article, the author argues that modern advertising is similar to how cancer takes over the human body. After...

  3. Guardian of the GPL: Online advertising is becoming “a perfect despotism”

    Article In this article, the author provides an overview of Eben Moglen (Guardian of the GPL)' s thoughts on why online...

  4. How Companies Learn Your Secrets

    Article In this article, the author tells the story of how Target learned to identify when women are pregnant to target...

  5. The Convenience-Surveillance Tradeoff

    Article In this article, Adrienne LaFrance discusses how Americans view the tradeoffs between privacy and surveillance based on a recent. Pew study....

  6. Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism

    Article In this article, Ian Bogost provides an overview of the history of business intelligence. While the uncannily-appropriate nature of the targeted...

  7. Why Using an Ad Blocker Is Stealing

    Article In this article, the author discusses why using an ad blocker is stealing. The author argues that using an ad...