Please understandnim asking this question from a genuine place. I dont want the quora answer, i want the tech savvy, security expert minds of my fellow lemmings. If thats ok?

What happens to this data? What can/do they do with it? and why are so many people concerned about google tracking them?

Do i as an average user need to be concerned?

If so, What sorts of things can i do to avoid being tracked? Preferably without too much comprimise.

  • @tpihkal
    link
    English
    121 year ago

    I just don’t use the internet, can’t track me if I ain’t on it!

    • @foggy
      link
      351 year ago

      If your friends have Facebook, and they share contacts on their phone, and they communicate with you Facebook has a shadow profile for your phone number. They still track you even without the app or an account.

      • TrenchcoatFullOfBats
        link
        fedilink
        171 year ago

        Joke’s on Facebook, all my friends are either Amish or live in anarcho-syndicalist communes

        (Rumspringa can be a problem tho)

        • @Adulated_Aspersion
          link
          31 year ago

          You’re fooling yourself. We’re living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes…

      • snownyte
        link
        fedilink
        16 months ago

        You’re not even safe from deleting your account.

        You delete your account, come back with a new one to find that the suggested people are people you once had as friends or looked at.

        Gee, wonder how they know that? /s

      • @tpihkal
        link
        English
        11 year ago

        The only Facebook I use is a telephone book!

    • @Rhoeri
      link
      English
      51 year ago

      …. They said, on the internet.

    • slazer2au
      link
      41 year ago

      Oh you sweet summer child. You have no idea how much tracking goes on.