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They can pull data anyway.
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I do not use a cell phone. I do not pick up calls I don’t recognize. I do not open spam emails. I am using an old desktop PC.

I use a digital camera, not a cell or tablet camera. I rarely share pics by email. I will show someone in person, instead.

I only use my Kindle to download and read, not as a tablet.

My car is a 2006 model. Do not use toll roads. Visit 2nd tier cities maybe once a year and third tier every couple of months. Same routes/destinations every time...all innocuous shopping.

Use an MD who does not keep electronic records. $40/visit + free tests and cheap antibiotics or whatever. Worth it.

I do not use goog to search. As a writer, I do a lot of very odd, eclectic searches anyway, so good luck trying to sell me what I look at. Which is dumb, IMO. If I just bought something, why would I immediately buy it again? (That is all the ads I see....my last purchase on Amazon)

I use ABP and only see ads on Drudge, which I now use about 1x/week, if that.

Weather site has ads and my *&^%$%$ email (ISP is on a Yahoo platform)is 90% business, and they have that info from other gov sources. I usually click the ad icon and mark it as irrelevant/don’t like. My ISP limits my bandwidth to the point that I lose connection often and when I am not online, computer is shut down or in sleep mode. Gives me an edge when (very infrequently) encountering malwear....the stuff has limited time/bandwidth available, too.

YT is 95% recipes and DIY videos. I can garner the basics from the log lines. I do watch some MSM clips.

I use/have NO loyalty cards/store cards. I do not take polls or surveys. I do not return the extra census forms and haven’t even received one for at least 5 years. No party registration in my state.

We live in the boonies and BING/GE never get our GPS correct nor do they ever return the same GPS twice.

No DNA identifier....my genealogy info is limited, as most blood relatives are deceased. It matches most of a small subset of Americans. Big whoop.

Last time I checked what they have on me, my gender was correct, my age was generalized within 10 years and my location was off by 250 miles. Surviving family is similarly inclined. I do not show up in the “related to” databases I have checked.

Lots of FB info comes from your contacts and metadata on posted cellphone pics. Metadata on your posts tells them location/time.

Like all Americans, gov knows my income sources and can see my expenditures via bank account/cc cards. I don’t care...it’s all basic necessities or fiction. They know my legal info, name variations. I accept that.

Point is: I have limited/eliminated my connections on social media and digital device use and I doubt not only how much FB might have on me, its accuracy would be questionable. There are no current pics of me online. Ones available are all 20 years old or so.

We aren’t chipped yet. You have to cooperate for them to get more than the basics. I live as I do out of pure stubbornness, not because it matters personally what they harvest. I resent the intrusions on general principle.