Hey, mad respect at you for bein' able to discuss this without sounding like an advertising shill, and for bein' open about your place of employment and for cov

Hey, mad respect at you for bein' able to discuss this without sounding like an advertising shill, and for bein' open about your place of employment and for coverin' your butt by makin' your comments known to be yours and not your employers'. Wish more folks could do that. Good job of "adulting" there. ;) As a (sometimes) "consumer", I personally don't mind companies I'm doing business with gathering some data to better serve me as a customer. It's actually kinda their job. And I don't even mind when they advertise related products/services at me (but not the product/service I just bought please). And I don't mind one little bit bein' advertised at (respectfully) when I'm on a site where I'm obviously lookin' to buy something. My main problem is that too often there's a degree of uncomfortable overreach with building (and worse yet, sharing around) a detailed profile of my travels on the web that is beyond unnecessary and unreasonable. I don't honestly trust most personal friends with as much information about me as some freakin' advertisers would seem to want to database and index about me. It's gotten honestly out of control, and I don't know what else to do anymore except use every tool my browser has available to block as much of it as I can actively.