Re:Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracki...
by ams6110 on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:30AM
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> Just 15 years ago
Yeah you were still being tracked. It's just a lot easier and more specific now. But everything about you that's public record, or even semi-public, including your credit reports, housing history, leins/judgments, voter registration, bio/demo data from any product registration card you ever sent in, purchase history from credit cards, etc. was in marketing databases and bought, sold, and traded. This has been going on since the 1970s at least.
But you're right, it's MUCH more pervasive now.
However, if you really yearn for what it was like 15 - 20 years ago, there's an easy solution: Don't be online. At all. Just like it was then.
Yeah you were still being tracked. It's just a lot easier and more specific now. But everything about you that's public record, or even semi-public, including your credit reports, housing history, leins/judgments, voter registration, bio/demo data from any product registration card you ever sent in, purchase history from credit cards, etc. was in marketing databases and bought, sold, and traded. This has been going on since the 1970s at least.
But you're right, it's MUCH more pervasive now.
However, if you really yearn for what it was like 15 - 20 years ago, there's an easy solution: Don't be online. At all. Just like it was then.