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> Hard to know what the causes are here

Institutional collusion. I don't mean explicit, agreed-upon conspiring; I mean the sort of industry signaling you see everywhere, like cellphone provider and airline pricing.

FB, say, ups the intrusiveness in one way, and the other surveillance firms watch carefully. If the blowback is manageable, yay, new normal has been achieved.



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