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by Thriptic 2823 days ago
Real time pricing and personalized pricing. The more marketers learn about you, the more they will be able to set custom prices for you that may not be in your benefit. Think airline tickets, that's the model people are after.

What if I told you that in 10 minutes you could get most of the way to great privacy without leaving Google services or social networks at all? Also your pages will load faster, you will be paywalled less often, and you will see a security benefit.

1. Browser containerization, use one browser for browsing normally and never sign into accounts, use the other for only signing into accounts, no normal browsing

2. Install Ublock origin and privacy badger extensions

3. Get a VPN (ok, this takes more like 10 minutes by itself) and use it

4. Only browse in incognito mode and set your browser to delete history

5. Make firefox and brave your browsers and turn on their default privacy features

6. Continue to chat on social networks and Google but use their encrypted products (Allo incognito, WhatsApp, FB's thing etc)

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I am afraid grocery stores will start this. (Or perhaps they already do.) Virtual sales for certain people for specific products. But it is hard not to pass up the huge savings the "bonus" card gets you.
Kroger does this with their Kroger card. They send you coupons for things in your purchase history, and similar items they think you might like.
Oh, the humanity!
Relevant xkcd: Customer Rewards https://xkcd.com/2006/

But we need another one where they use the data to exploit you.

Ok, pricing thing is scary. 1. Interesting 2. I've it installed already 3. How does vpn help? 4. Does having safari, help? 5. I use safari as default. does that work? 6. I don't use FB, Twitter. Only Youtube, Gmail
3. VPN helps by obfuscating IP address which is one way you can be tracked.

4. What you are trying to do is clear cookies and history regularly so trackers can't vacuum that data up. You can probably set similar defaults in Safari but I don't know how.

5. I advocate for Firefox because they have protections against browser's fingerprinting. I don't know if Safari has these, you would have to check.

6. You should use encrypted chat, it doesn't really matter which you choose.

This is a pretty great video which walks through everything I just said and more in 15 minutes: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gFsRXfifcYg

Thanks!