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Each third-party tracker exposes some of your personal information to the company behind it. Further, when the same tracker is littered over many of the world’s websites, the company behind it can create a massive data collection by combining the data its tracker collects on each site. With so much data from so many websites, these widespread trackers (and the companies behind them) can develop extensive individual profiles, which can include browsing, location, search, and purchase history. Then, these profiles can be used for anything, including following you around the web with creepy advertising.

I don't mind the personalized ads. Sometimes they are actually helpful. I've discovered products this way. My take on trackers is; What if hackers get their hands o all these profiles? Ads are least of our worries. Thanks to crypto I discovered Brave Browser and I've been using DuckDuckGo for a while.

This one as the most important chart for me. It shows how far reaching these networks are. (These stats are foro top million websites)

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-109807effc93555406ede32b7b7d235b

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