Interesting! I guess I must search a lot less than I feel like I do. I do some things like type in URLs rather than searching for a known URL, and going to Wikipedia directly and then searching there; maybe that stuff helps more than I’d think? Or maybe we just use the Internet differently, which is fine too.

That’s wild to me; I feel like I search a lot, and I only go over the 300 searches rarely. Those few times I do, it’s painless to just start the cycle a few days early.

$5 a month is really not expensive, though. That’s less than the price of a AAA game for a full year. Google is only free because they make their money selling user data. How cheap does a good search engine need to be?

I feel like the article is focusing on the wrong target here: the watermarks are not the problem. The problem is the vast and interconnected ubiquitous surveillance machine that makes it possible to track these watermarks around and, therefore, determine who is talking to whom about what.

While we can’t make use of the information in the mark ourselves, it seems like, if we can figure out how to spot them, it should be possible to make watermarks with fake but legitimate-seeming values in other to confuse things.

Haven’t grifters been fleecing people about harvesting gold like this for decades? What’s different about Uranium?