>2017
>open windows start menu
>my activity is sent to vortex.microsoft.com
>start typing Google Chrome
>every keystroke is sent to microsoft
>open google chrome
>sent to m$
>start typing BBC news
>my ISP logs the DNS lookup and sells it to highest bidder
>BBC is starting to load
>300 requests total, 50% of that are javascript files
>after 3 seconds it loaded
>Facebook/Twitter/Google all tracking every move I make due to "social media" cookies/js
>3 ads on each side, all showing products that Google AI thought I'd buy
>every mouse movement is tracked
>all the tracking cookies are stored forever
>I start to scroll down, but a popup asking for my email comes, I can't press decline because its worded and packed as anxiety "I don't want to be up to date with world news/No thanks, I'll pay more"
>Since I gave my email all big companies now know what I'm interested in, and will keep tracking me.
>I want to post this on my favorite board, but they have google captcha so a tracking cookie is injected and Google tracks my activity, plus I train Google's AI
How did we get to this /g/? Why did normies ruin the internet?
>>62487195
Normies didn't ruin the internet. Money did.
>>62487211
You cant earn money from intelligent people, only from normies
>>62487195
Use Qubes OS, ublock Origin, https everywhere and block all third party cookies. Use the torbrowser-qube if necessary.