[inetknght]

> Everyone opted into tracking

No, everyone opted in to using services. Tracking was buried in legalese in an unenforceable unilateral "contract".

> and we can opt out again too

Too little, too late, and unenforceable. You might opt-out of the ways you know are being tracked but there's hundreds of ways that you can be tracked without even knowing about it.

> Anyone who wants to track me will have to pay someone to actually follow me around which would cost more than anyone stands to make from the data they would obtain.

I'm not sure you understand just how much profit there is in controlling entire populations by monitoring and predicting what they do.

[lrvick]

I am well aware of the profit incentives for my data, and selling manipulation as a service. It is why I opt out in every instance I have a choice.

I use Whonix for most personal browsing, I use 0 GAFAM services or products by surveillance capitalism companies, I do not own a smartphone, I randomize my wifi MAC addresses, and the majority of my transactions are in cash or anonymized bitcoin.

License plate plate cameras, facial/gait recognition systems, and airline tickets are about the only automated ways left to track me that I am aware of.