Honest, sharp writing about data privacy, ad-tech, and the systems that follow you around the web. No jargon. No corporate fog.
Every time you load a webpage, hundreds of companies silently bid on the right to profile you — in under 100 milliseconds. A guided tour through the real-time bidding casino you never consented to enter.
GDPR gave you the legal right to say no. Then a thousand UX designers spent three years making "no" as hard to find as a terms-and-conditions page written in ancient Sumerian.
Language models don't answer questions. They complete context. The richest context you could give one has been accumulating in your browser for years, entirely unread by anything that works in your interest.
Every AI assistant you've used starts fresh when you open a new conversation. Ad networks have had a continuous record of you for twenty years. The asymmetry is not accidental, and it matters more than most people have noticed.