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A short while ago I got a notification email saying that someone had friended me on Snapchat. A short while after that I got a notice from Disqus, the blog comment service, that ads would be coming to my comments section shortly. The twist is that I haven’t used either service in about a decade—I stopped using Disqus in 2016, when I moved the personal site to WordPress, and I deleted Snapchat from my phone ages ago on account of never actually using it. It’s just that I missed getting around ...