Daring Fireball: Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy

This ad, and Gruber's writeup, reflect in part why I so actively defend myself against all these trackers.

Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it. They talk in circles but their argument boils down to entitlement: they think our privacy is theirs for the taking because they’ve been getting away with taking it without our knowledge, and it is valuable.

We, as a society and as a group of Internet citizens, never once agreed to this surveillance. There is no right for this type of activity to exist.