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A four-panel SMBC comic. A man with curly orange-red hair complains to a dark-haired woman about a new Facebook update. He insists it's a "total invasion of privacy" that, if you don't agree to give them your data, fills your browser history with porn. He waves his laptop, telling her she'll "probably see it a lot" if she opens his computer, and frets that nobody else online is reporting this and that "they are so sneaky" — while the woman looks increasingly unconvinced and checks her phone. The joke is that he is transparently making up a conspiracy to explain the porn already in his own browser history. In the votey (aftercomic), a close-up of his nervous face thinks: "I'd erase the history but I want to be able to find it later for evidence."