Sublime

Alexis Madrigal, senior editor at The Atlantic, points out that a user’s data can be purchased for about half a cent, but the average user’s value to the Internet advertising ecosystem is estimated at $1,200 per year.

Other examples of corrupt personalization include Amazon suggesting its own in-house brands before other results in its marketplace and Google Search prioritizing the company’s other products, like Google Maps, as the best sources of information. The company profits, but the user may suffer, and it degrades the overall cultural ecosystem. As

The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.

Harris now acknowledges when he claims that the attention economy drives companies like Google into a “race to the bottom of the brain stem.”

The industries that profit from using them fund the vast majority of the research into them;