The article also has trackers from Amazon, a direct competitor to Google, whose CEO personally owns the Washington Post. Now, I'm no journalist, but if I had this kind of financial relationship on my blog without prominently disclosing it, people would call me a shill.
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The pattern we see with articles like this (most notoriously on the New York Times's Privacy Project) is that the deeply invasive tracking and financial dependence of journalism on the tech oligopoly are so taken for granted that editors don't even see them as meriting mention
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Fortunately the Washington Post, like the New York Times, no longer has a public editor or ombudsman to watch over such ethical lapses. Instead, I as a reader am empowered to make these criticisms directly.
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(Also the 'democracy dies in darkness' infant onesie is kind of fucked up)
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Not surprising, considering Google's historic compliance with NSA dragnet data gathering as revealed by Snowden in those powerpount slides and documents all those years ago.
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That is a complete non sequitur
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Writes "cookies are bad b/c that pair of pants you saw on one website follow you around in ads on other websites." Has 400 ads on page screaming "I hope you like these pair of pants from that other website."
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I'd like to read it, but WaPo blocks you if you're in Private Mode
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@lapcatsoftware might have a fix for private browsing WaPo?
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