[PittsburghAfterDark]

Search engines aren’t the issue believe it or not.

The fact that every commercial website has 25+ web/ad functions and 99+ tracking functions (I know this due to my ad blocking software.) just browsing the web provides more data to Google, Amazon etc than you searching for say, “Camping equipment”.

Every publisher is guilty of this, some far more than others obviously.

They sell search, they track activity just from you being on a Google ad served site. Short of connecting to a VPN every time you go online nothing really stops their vacuuming up of tracking data.

[RedMonqey]

"They sell search, they track activity just from you being on a Google ad served site. ”

It's all "fun and games" when just limiting this data to purchasing tastes but consider what all this data in the political sense.

Not to get biblical(or maybe the novel "1984", they both converge at some point) But all this data could easy be used to "mark" the politically unreliable people. Being a member of a site like "Free Republic" would automatically label us as the wrong type of people needed for the "New Man"(to use a Soviet term)to emerge as the rightful successor to the bourgeoisie.

And much like U-Tube or google ot twitter or any number of public forums that decide to ""demonetized' certain persons of a certain political opinion, one needs little imagination to see these same groups(with the power of the state) to declare these same people as "unpersons" and thus need to be "liquidates"

It's coming, the only thing stopping them now is they don't yet have the numbers, they numbers they have haven't been properly instructed why the need and, lastly, the opposition won't meekly climb into the cattle cars willingly and far too many of them will have their personal protection hidden on them and will take as many "party members" to Hell with them.

That pesky 2nd Amendment is quite a barrier to their "Final Solution'