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Don’t forget that the government owes like 75% of the exit nodes.


It’s a collective war that I also feel is lost. Especially, when there is little to no policies in effect to stop these data brokers. Unless you live in California.


Yeah, I completely agree. I did this also right before I moved and found out my mental health records were being bought by data brokers.

I totally fell down a rabbit hole with that one. Basically, the 3rd-party software that hospitals and clinics use are subject to sell the data that gets imported into the software.

But, you’re definitely right. I’m pretty sure it’s my rental agency along with everybody else.

When, I first moved here with in the first week I received mail from a bunch of local dealers about my Hyundai which completely freaked me out that they all of a sudden knew what I drove as soon as I entered the state.

I’m not sure how data brokers actually work but they definitely operate like organized crime organizations.


Feeling like Privacy is a lost war.
So, I recently moved about 6 months ago. Have only given my real address and name to the DMV, Phone Company, Internet, and rental property(obviously knows my real address) Ran Optery and found out that over 80 data brokers have my legit new address already. Feeling like privacy is just some kind of wet dream at the moment. I do everything right, I think but no matter what the 4 companies I have given my information too will constantly sell my personal data no matter what. It’s truly sad the direction America is going towards, all for some more money.
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Trying to understand Michael Bazzell
I understand what he does is only his preference but why does he not recommend using Mullvad anywhere in his books or podcasts and completely shills “Proton” for everything as if it’s the best source for everything privacy related. In his book “Extreme Privacy” he also talks about using Cloudflare due to their no-logging policy for your DNS resolver. “We will collect limited DNS query data that is sent to our 1.1.1.1 resolver. Our 1.1.1.1 resolver service does not log personal information, and the bulk of the limited non-personally identifiable query data is only stored for 25 hours.” https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ I just feel like something isn’t adding up, somewhere.
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I do agree having a privacy oriented mindset makes people more susceptible to not communicate with you due to not having social media like Snapchat and Instagram. It’s almost like people forget you.

But, it’s all good, just pick a hobby and run with it. I have been trying to learn programming.