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Life & fun · September 5, 2018

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Unwelcome Gaze – Visualizing Google, Facebook, and Amazon

Unwelcome Gaze – Visualizing Google, Facebook, and Amazon launched on September 5, 2018 with 7 votes, #988 of 2,635 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

What it does

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&ldquo;Squint your eyes to see clearly, blur reality to make it real.&rdquo; Google, Facebook, Amazon. How frequent is your daily interaction with them? Google&rsquo;s ads are almost impossible to miss unless you&rsquo;re using an ad blocker, and virtually any question you have or research you&rsquo;re working on begins by visiting google.com. Gmail is also widely popular, and even if you&rsquo;re not using it yourself, chances are that the person you&rsquo;re in correspondence with does, thus making your e-mails land on Google&rsquo;s servers Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours , Benjamin Mako Hill, 2014. . &ldquo;Squint your eyes to see clearly, blur reality to make it…from brutalism.rs

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