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What the Internet Actually Knows About You (And What People Only Pretend It Does)

Everyone has heard someone claim, with great confidence, that 'they can see who's been looking at your profile.' An engineer's calm, demystifying guide to the gap between modern digital folklore and what actually happen…

By Christian Bertolini8 October 202612 min read

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GlamBon is where glamour is taken seriously enough to be questioned.

Essays on culture, style, wellbeing and the way we live now, for readers who never accepted that beauty and substance are opposites.

Good Glamour earns its place: it asks better questions instead of selling easy answers. 123 stories so far, in 9 sections.

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