No-one is debating you. We all want that. I want that.
I’ve spent mind-boggling amounts of hours since 1992 trying to obtain that… and now know enough to realise that it simply isn’t possible for normal people who want to do normal things online. Maintaining privacy with a modest amount of effort used to be possible. It no longer is. The purpose of my comment was to alert you to that fact so that you had the option of choosing not to waste a few thousand hours of your life trying to do the impossible.
And guess what? If you are a Windows user, that’s exactly what you will do… because Microsoft will continue to be evil, turn the screws, and ultimately give you no other choice. Fight back if you like – if it makes you feel good – but it won’t make a difference in the end.
There’s a difference between liking something and accepting it. Accepting reality is a virtue, not a vice.
Ditch your ‘smart’-phone. Use a ‘feature’-phone instead. Replace your router to distance yourself from the BSSID already stored in proximity-tracking databases. Physically disable the Wi-Fi on your desktop and connect it to your router using Ethernet instead.
For starters, if you really prefer not to be tracked, use a VPN to log in from (per IP address) different locations.
And here an excerpt from an article in Wired from just a few years ago: “Amazon’s privacy notice details that it may automatically collect your IP address, login details, the location of computer, errors your device logs when using its services, your app preferences, cookie details, identifiers linked to your phone or computer, and all the URLs that you click, including page interaction information “such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs.” " On some browsers, an extension like"Random User-Agent” might make it a little more difficult for Amazon to follow you around.
Yes, Amazon is truly an expert at tracking us, and I am actually not surprised they “found you out”. Also, if they can tell that you’re using Graphene OS on your mobile, it might actually make you stand out more.
This is why we need regulation to make any and all online tracking illegal on pain of death, without exception for law enforcement or intelligence agencies.
Failing that, we need revolution. Violent if necessary.
Acceptance is not an option. I’d sooner end all life on earth.
A lack of privacy is a complete and total red line that can never be acceptable under any circumstance.
The human race is better off not existing at all than living in an Orwellian nightmare.
We absolutely cannot give up and become complacent and accepting of abuses of our fundamental rights, even if that means we need to resort to civil war over it.
There is not even room for compromise on this topic. It is “no tracking at all for any reason” or death.
