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I'm glad I'm chronically uninteresting. If I had literally any information of value I'd be much more careful but now I'm just one of many in a massive crowd of more interesting people.
I'm still blocking advertisements though. Fuck that shit.
Uh oh, you just claimed to be uninteresting... I think that trigger language gets you flagged for further follow-up?! You are now on their radar buddy!!!
(/s btw)
Says me, who is totally a spy. Yup, absolutely they should read all of my data.
(but a spy would never say that so...)
Reminds me of the Bill Hicks bit about marketing and advertising. "Oh he's going for that anti-marketing dollar, that's a great market!"
Yeah I suppose in this game you only get to choose your side, but the option to not play at all is not left open to you.
Or, you can choose not to play but that basically means rejecting society. That price is too high for 99%+ of people. Some of us try to partially abstain with privacy tools.
You would have to not have an address, phone, or use the internet, nor travel along a roadway that has billboards (even the Amish are not immune!), so yeah, wherever you are they will track you down, basically.:-( Which is on them, while what we choose to do about it is on us:-).
Yeah you’d have to be an off-grid mountain man, basically. That’s why so few do it, but some do!
Hrm... come to think of it, there are some people who would want to have a list of off-grid mountain men (hunters of potential immortal vampires? or perhaps to ensure that such people have their... ahem "votes" properly counted?), so even then there surely is a list, or rather a few thousand lists, of such people? Perhaps all people who have not bought anything for the last 5 years but for where an obituary has not yet recorded their deaths?
(Unfortunately) where there is a will, there is a way!
Ugh, you’re right. They may not be able to find you to sell you shit, but they can still piece together the you-shaped hole you left behind.
Bold thought: occasionally visit a website with privacy trackers off? Confuse the fuck out of them too with conflicting input. :-P Don't just protect yourself, protect others by corrupting their databases:-D. Don't just resist culture, counter it! Tbh I don't really care enough to do any of this, but it is fun to think about:-). They can try to characterize me all they want, but meanwhile... uh actually I want & struggle to try to do that too, so I can say good luck with that task MFers! ;-)
I mean you consume goods and utilize services, so in the context of advertising, yes you are interesting and valuable.
(Also in the context of being a fellow human being, just so you know ❤️, but that's a separate topic)
Sure, I meant more in a nefarious sort of way. Also it was more or less a joke...