Privacy, Secrecy, the Web, and Ads The Brooks Review
brooksreview.net/2013/06/privacy-secrecy-the-web-and-ads
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
As a society we hate privacy, but as individuals we cherish it. We hate it when friends keep things from us, or limit what they share online, but we in turn hate sharing everything with our friends. We block someone, while criticizing them for blocking us.