In some ways that’s correct.
Unfortunately even if that was how the Internet worked, everyone else with whom you conduct personal business, including every one of your financial transactions, is also data that is being sold and traded to the same folks that get your data from Internet activities. Amazon does not merely know everything about your buying activity with them, they trade that data with others too. With Amazon and others like them you are both a customer and a commodity.
NONE of this can happen to me. I never used Facebook or any other ‘social media’. I can be social enough with my telephone & with in person contacts.
I NEVER do any purchasing online. I NEVER do any bill paying online. I do purchase auto parts from Summit Racing & horse supplies from a catalog, but I actually SPEAK to the employees at those facilities & handle my business with them in that manner.
I get very good customer service with them. both, especially Summit Racing, since I have older vehicles that the local ‘auto parts stores’ no longer have IN THEIR COMPUTERS. Summit never lets me down.
I have resisted the ‘social media’ crap for years & I kept telling people their information was NOT private there. NOW-—I really laugh at them.
The other day I heard something on the radio that made perfect sense. It went something like this...
When a product or a service is usable for free, you are the product.