Yes true: the "big tech" sites also have ways to track what you do on other sites.
If I were going to do something nefarious, it would be with a dedicated computer that I never connected to my home network and never logged into "big tech" sites using my primary account. And when I wasn't using it would be unplugged with the battery removed.
And even then there's the possibility they do some underhanded shit like try to fingerprint mouse movements or the way you type. Ever since I took this online quiz 20 years ago that asked regional dialect questions and tried to guess where you grew up and it accurately did so within 50 miles (and the runner-up guess was were my mom grew up) I've wondered just how much hidden information there is to be gleaned from how simply how we interact with the computer.
Hell you could probably fingerprint people with a bunch of "what color is the dress?" style questions asked as part of a captcha.
Yes true: the "big tech" sites also have ways to track what you do on other sites.
If I were going to do something nefarious, it would be with a dedicated computer that I never connected to my home network and never logged into "big tech" sites using my primary account. And when I wasn't using it would be unplugged with the battery removed.
And even then there's the possibility they do some underhanded shit like try to fingerprint mouse movements or the way you type. Ever since I took this online quiz 20 years ago that asked regional dialect questions and tried to guess where you grew up and it accurately did so within 50 miles (and the runner-up guess was were my mom grew up) I've wondered just how much hidden information there is to be gleaned from how simply how we interact with the computer.
Hell you could probably fingerprint people with a bunch of "what color is the dress?" style questions asked as part of a captcha.