Online advertisingSpeaking of which: Online ads became so intrusive in 2018 that they increasingly ruined people’s web-browsing experiences and raised more hackles about privacy. The online ads industry became so good at tracking our web browsing activities that they increasingly knew precisely what we were thinking about buying. Fortunately, there are solutions for this, which I outlined in several articles this year about how the web is breaking. These fixes are not ideal because they take a long time to put in place, and blocking ads hurts media businesses. According to the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey, about 3.6 million middle and high school students currently vape, up from 280,000 in 2011.

Source: New York Times December 26, 2018 16:18 UTC