Sadly, there’s no such thing as privacy these days, and that’s been the case ever since the internet and the Web came into their own some time ago.
That is not exactly true. O was a charter member of the first bbs, in 1993, to gain internet access, by buying a slot. It was still quite private, then, and the WWW came along later, with outfits like Compuserve and America Online, both subscription services, that had specific areas separated as family and adult.