I just googled “alarm dust,” “alibi sweatshirt” and “sleuth intelligence.” Then, I shopped for industrial dehydrators, scanned a Pinterest page for concrete decks and read something about nuclear war.
The thing is, I’m not in the market for a new dehydrator. Concrete decks aren’t really my style, and I still have no idea what “alarm dust” is. I didn’t visit any of these websites of my own volition—a website called Internet Noise did, all to obscure my real browsing habits in a fog of fake search history.
Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to let internet service providers sell your browsing data on the open market. This decision angered a lot of people, including programmer Dan Schultz. After reading about the vote on Twitter at 1 a.m., he turned off Zelda and coded this ghost currently opening tabs on my machine.
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