I guess that's what I'm saying: I don't feel like I'm being watched. I don't feel as though some website recording my clicks is burdensome to me. I leave them to their little games and microoptimizations, and I don't take their bait---I have much more important things going on.
If someone grows up in some panopticon-like structure from birth, they by definition cannot feel like they're being watched - to even register the fact of being watched, one must know the feeling of not being watched.
I don't mean that in any abstract or airy-fair way either, just matter-of-factly. It's a major cultural change. Kids often have no lived experience of privacy - privacy sometimes simply means social non-existence for them, and is thus deemed a non-option.
It's playing out in many areas now, as we've lots of people who lived before the internet, and at the same time, loads of human beings who only know a world of constant surveillance, a world of views = value, a world of constantly caressing your phone, pawing at it at every available opportunity. A world of quiet buses, people getting dressed up for their phone and pretending to go on a night out but never leaving their bedroom, other people at home in their bedroom on their phones liking that "story", etc etc.
