Isn’t it still useful to stop leaving any further footprints?
Sure, Google might know I like to read classic literature, but maybe one day I’ll switch over to some other category of books; isn’t it advisable to not tell Google about this switch? People and their preferences change, and advertising data is useless if not up to date.
Commenting because occasionally I also feel this way - you’re fighting against conglomerates who employ a lot of people, most of them the smartest people in their field, to hone and polish the information they have about us. What could we, as a layperson, even hope to do against this much opposing current? But eventually I come around to realise that we too are slowly getting better at this, that we also have smart people fighting on our side.
Isn’t it still useful to stop leaving any further footprints?
Sure, Google might know I like to read classic literature, but maybe one day I’ll switch over to some other category of books; isn’t it advisable to not tell Google about this switch? People and their preferences change, and advertising data is useless if not up to date.
Commenting because occasionally I also feel this way - you’re fighting against conglomerates who employ a lot of people, most of them the smartest people in their field, to hone and polish the information they have about us. What could we, as a layperson, even hope to do against this much opposing current? But eventually I come around to realise that we too are slowly getting better at this, that we also have smart people fighting on our side.