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> Ubiquitous computing, what will it bring us?

Ads, obviously.



Ubiquitous spyware in everything we interact with, in order to make ads, on average, 5% more efficient—juuuuust enough more efficient that having a stream of massive-scale spyware data is necessary to compete in the ad sales market. Totally a good trade-off, making all the world's computing adversarial so ads work slightly better.


When adblocking software becomes indistinguishable from stealth technology.




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