[tedbradley]

What would you consider the "extreme of tracking?" Anyway, I feel like we're dealing with Sorites paradox here, which is something my brother always freaks out over whenever there is a continuum of choices in something like a political argument. E.g. "Tax the rich" → "What is rich?!?" When someone says, "Tax the rich," they generally mean people with dozens of millions in net worth growing fast all the way up to the people who have hundreds of billions. I don't understand why that conversation repeatedly comes up with him. He's also into the slippery slope where, if you like the idea of a wealth tax, he cries bloody murder since income tax started out only on the richest salaries in the nation. So he reasons that... everyone will eventually have a wealth tax instead of it just being the people with billions of dollars who have paid like 1% tax per year due to their net worth being tied up in unsold stocks.

So if I'm going to pick your brain, what would a realistic extreme of tracking look like? You have to log in with your state-issued identity to enter the internet, and systems track absolutely everything you do? Sure, that sounds bad. I can admit that. But I don't feel like having a "?=example.com" is anywhere near that, if you get what I mean.

Do you find it moral to block ads? By that point, you are using free services without paying as intended. Or do you mean you buy YT premium and Twitch Turbo and Spotify premium and all those monthly bills that both block ads while sustaining the services you apparently enjoy using?