I used to agree with this but it is easier than ever before to seriously reduce your footprint on the web: I use a VPN, UBlock Origin and NoScript and although

I used to agree with this but it is easier than ever before to seriously reduce your footprint on the web: I use a VPN, UBlock Origin and NoScript and although it's not perfect it stops all third parties tracking me with their stuff. Dead. It can be tedious at times, like hitting a link on HN to a site that requires JS... do I let them in or not? But it can be done. I don't know what size my footprint is online but I reckon it's tiny compared to, say, my mums. The thing that worries me is when someone puts everything together, i.e. Facebook data, Google data, Twitter data, government sites data etc... that's worrying.