Anywhere I go in meatspace, people could be collecting data about me and my behavior. That has always been true since the beginning of time. An old lady can sit on her porch and take notes about my outfit, my comings and goings, and every driver who comes to my door. Today, they're saying that Target can definitely hear our WiFi/BT MACs as soon as we get into their store, and they see/track everything on camera everywhere inside. My Groucho Marx isn't going to hinder or change that!

All I can do, honestly, is be judicious about what sites I visit, and be forthright in my interactions. I should cultivate good relationships with trustworthy, reputable companies, and stay away from the rest. I cannot ultimately prevent the buying and selling behind the scenes. We cannot realistically prevent collection of everything possible.

I don't shop at Temu or Alibaba, and I don't search on Yandex. I checked my "About Me" on Amazon yesterday and it's shockingly bland and shallow. However I interact with Google, YouTube, Microsoft, and Cloudflare, it's a foregone conclusion that they know everything. My extensive 19-year history on Wikimedia projects is a shockingly rich treasure trove, if anything just my waking hours of every day since 2007! Your own karma score 22,495 in 14 years is probably a fantastic track record of when you were awake and using a computer. If you're so paranoid about Internet privacy, then you wouldn't be so willingly revealing that stuff in public.

I'm using adblocking DNS again, but awhile ago I sort of dropped the pretense of paranoia, because I understood its futility, and again, life's too short. If evil corpos want to do evil to me based on what they think they know, they can do their worst. I am a Christian man accustomed to suffering and infirmity. I got nothing to lose in this life, except integrity.