The vilest, most designingly wicked men our century knows.

You remember the heshers. Those guys who hung out in the back corner of the high-school parking lot, listening to the Scorps on the stereo in their souped-up Chevy Nova with the mag wheels and dual overhead cams.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.

Aerial photo taken on Oct. 21, 2018 shows a view of Danxia landform at Wangjiawan of Pingqiao Town in Ansai District of Yan'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.