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Silas looked at the open tins around him. “So why are these still here?”

Tess handed him a small, clean flash drive. “This is the ITP log from her last iMac. It shows every third-party cookie Safari destroyed. Every cross-site handshake refused. Every time the browser said, You don’t know her. You don’t get to follow her. She kept that log as a kind of diary. She called it her ‘privacy garden.’ No weeds allowed.”

At the very bottom, she’d written a note in the log’s metadata: “The web doesn’t have to be a panopticon. Safari taught me that. The compass rose points north. Let it.”

“Because she opted in,” Tess said softly. “Once. On a genealogy site. She clicked ‘Allow All Cookies’ to see an old census record. After that, every tracker she ever encountered—across every site—could read and write to that one permission. They built a profile of her. Shopping, health, politics, even the sad articles she read at 2 a.m. after your grandfather passed.”