"Profit over Privacy gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising"--
The contemporary internet's de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily prescient ads, Facebook and Google read our messages and analyze our patterns, and apps record our every move. In Profit over Priva…
The revolution will be commercialized -- A framework for global electronic commerce -- The web gets a memory -- The dot-com bubble -- Surveillance advertising takes shape -- The privacy challenge -- The legacy of the dot-com era. "Profit over Privacy gives internet surveillance…
A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet. The contemporary internet’s de facto business model is one of surveillance. Browser cookies follow us around the web, Amazon targets us with eerily prescient ads, Facebook and Google read our messages and anal…
"Profit over Privacy gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising"--