I’ve never been too paranoid about privacy. I use a club card in the grocery store, fully aware that my purchase habits are being tracked--but I don’t care if I can save a dollar on cereal. My car flies through the tollbooths at the Bay Area bridges thanks to my FasTrak device, which I guess could be used to track my movements if I ever murdered someone. Don’t worry; I’m not planning to--it’s just that I remember that happening on Law & Order once.
And while I know that my browsing history could be read by anyone who can access my computer, and third-party cookies can be used to target online advertising toward me, it’s hard for me to get excited about that. Most online ads are easy to ignore, I can install AdBlock on my browsers to hide them, and every browser I’ve used lets you manually clear that data anyhow.
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