Nice article, but unfortunately the problem goes much deeper than social media. If you delete your google account and continue to use google for searches - guess what? They still track you based on the new account info you've provided and your cookies/IP address and so on and so forth.
Combine this with the constant leaks of high-level cyber weapons (scripts/exploits) being leaked via the Shadow Brokers courtesy of the NSA, there is almost no such thing as privacy online. Aside from using something like Tails OS on removable storage, using a search engine like Duck Duck Go and never, ever logging into anything, they pretty much got us.
Very good points @radagast . The article is mostly about increasing levels of privacy not some absolute, unobtainium of perfect electronic anonymity. The argument is that getting Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn off your back and using DuckDuck go gets you 99.9% ahead in terms of privacy of everyone else.
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I see what you're saying, but I disagree. I think that overloading your internet presence is more effective than limiting it. Give them so much data that they can't build an effective profile of you for marketing. By using the internet in any way, they are tracking you via JavaScript, cookies, ads, logging into any email or service provider, even if you're "anonymous" there's still a footprint associated with IP addresses, MAC addresses and data collected by your ISP. In other words, you're fucked, mate.
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