Everyone here should also know that every time you use your Credit Card or Debit Card, you are also being Tracked, Marketed, Bought and Sold like a $2 whore to Advertisers all around the world.
CASH IS KING and you Don’t need ID to use it.
Which is exactly why the world is going cashless, and governments will soon do away with cash altogether. Revelation 13.
As well, credit cards are charged more per gallon of gas here in oregon.
Usually a nickel a gallon discount for cash.
It’s true, every time you do anything electronic it’s tracked/logged and thus subject to sale to advertisers or other companies wishing to gain your business. This means: anything you do on the Internet, any phone call you make, any bank account you open (any type from simple checking to an investment account) anytime you submit/pay your taxes online, anytime you use a “store discount card” (like a “bonus card” at a grocery store or gas station to save on gas) anything.
Bottom line: It’s impossible to avoid the tracking of buying/consumer history unless one literally has a stash of cash under the bed, only gets paid in cash (not by check that you then cash but by cash only) and pays for one’s bills with either cash or really better, via money order purchased at a convenience store where there are no cameras. Period.
That’s the only way to “be off the grid” or have “gone Galt”. Anything more, any computer use ever, any phone call ever made with a phone in your name, any tax ever paid electronically, even if drawn from a bank not in your name, any such instance ever, and you’re “on the grid”. For life. So that means anyone reading this now.
When I realized this reality about a decade ago now, I stopped trying to worry about whether or not some website was putting a tracking cookie on my browser (which is essentially what we are taking about here) to eventually lead me to an advertisement for a Charmin tissue paper instead of Puffs. Because that’s ultimately what we are taking about here, just another way to target a person or group of people for ads they may find interesting.
The only possible real “privacy concerns” is the possibility the government could get a hold of your personal preferences about whatever, and typecast you as a threat to the State based on what you bought in the past, or what ad for whatever you found interesting (because believe me, corporations don’t care about how moral you are they just want your money, so they aren’t a threat to anything but your wallet). So, the only real threat here is the government using our dataz against us, as some kind of population control.
Could that happen? Absolutely. Speaking for myself though, I’m just too tired of other realities now to worry about that. So if the government can somehow use the fact I prefer Charmin over Puffs to my detriment, well congratulations to them, because that fact is out there already for me. Can’t do anything about it now.
And it’s out there for anyone reading this too, and you can’t do anything about it now either.