Audio Books →Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09VMKNLL2 | 2022 | 6 hours and 52 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 189 MB
In Profit over Privacy, Matthew Crain gives internet surveillance a much-needed origin story by chronicling the development of its most important historical catalyst: web advertising. Profit over Privacy uses the 1990s as its backdrop to show how the massive data-collection infrastructure that undergirds the internet today is the result of twenty-five years of technical and political economic engineering. Crain considers the social causes and consequences of the internet's rapid embrace of consumer monitoring, detailing how advertisers and marketers adapted to the existential threat of the internet and marshaled venture capital to develop the now-ubiquitous business model called "surveillance advertising."