On: Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data

[staplers]

Horrendous analogy. Yellowpages never tracked your real-time location, served hyper-targeted political ads, or tested emotion-manipulation on its readers.

[bepotts → staplers]

All that stuff is private and is never disclosed to anyone without a court order; or at least that is supposed to be how it works.

Yellowpages told the public. That is the point.

[staplers → bepotts]

Step away from the bong for a sec and reread what I just wrote.