If 14 year old me knew what 30 year old me knew about digital surveillance, I never would have signed up for Facebook. That's why I don't usually bother using VPNs (mostly because Steam freaks out with Mullvad) unless it is to download something because the second you log into a website like Gmail or Youtube or Itunes or whatever, your digital footprint is tracked. I already clear cookies and use a bunch of adblockers and other extensions just to make the internet usable and I still get targeted ads.

Some random guy on the internet probably isn't going to know where I am but the feds certainly do, and they probably do with everyone on this board.