You can’t fully protect yourself unless you go back to your 1997 Nokia or don’t use the internet. Once you go online, nothing is private. Apart from minimising the harm by making informed clicks and try your best to understand what you give informed consent to for the sites you visit. An almost impossible task, especially if you are not a lawyer specialising in privacy.
Captive Mood: how Big Tech manipulates your emotions to serve advertisers Michael West Media
By Manal al-Sharif By Manal al-Sharif| August 25, 2021
The digital advertising platforms don’t just want our data. They also want us to spend our lives online, an “addiction” created for the primary purpose of serving advertisers. Manal al-Sharif reports on the pitfalls of “digital dictatorship” in this latest of her Tech4Evil series.
According to a2016 study, we touch our phones around 2617 times a day, whileanothershowed that 79 percent of phone owners check their device within 15 minutes of waking up. Our attention has been hijacked so much that one out of every four car accidents in the United States is believed to be caused by texting and driving.
As a result, we have shorter attention spans, take our phones everywhere, and become anxious when it’s out of sight.
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
Anything I do on-line is fair game for any spy who cares to know. I accepted that before the first time getting on-line. For that reason, I don’t do any shopping or money transfers on-line, although my bank probably does it.
I am an advertiser’s worst nightmare.
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Sounds like a sound way to proceed, Katherine.
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Deliberately bringing about addiction – this is interesting with reference to Covid blanket propaganda. News media like to sensationalise events. They must do this because large numbers like it – they enjoy being vicariously frightened by somebody else’s horrific experience. Is this like adrenalin junkies? That some smart person has figured out that constantly exciting people by ramping fear is addictive? And also has the useful by product that people will constantly return for more fright-hits and can’t think straight.
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I think this is good description for how people are living now, con, but I don’t believe they always lived this way. I think people naturally prefer face-to-face contact in social and community networks. Unfortunately communities have been pretty systemically destroyed in our present consumerist post industrial society. With the social need replaced by mass media.
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