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Whether or not you block the ads, these companies are aggregating information about you. Facebook sells data, Google aggregates it. Mass marketing companies sell data, other companies aggregate the data. Your cell service provider aggregates your location and your browsing habits into the database. You go to a store, your purchases are aggregated into the database.check out Oracle, they are the ones aggregating the physical (store purchases, location, etc.) With the online. You can opt out, but that only stops them from sharing the data, they still hold the data on their servers. And Oracle is not the only one.
I spent a day seeing where all this data goes, and it's amazing how much they store. It's not tin foil hat stuff, it's real. Ad blocking has nothing to do with it for me.
Fast mail doesn't play the data aggregation game, and $50 per year is worth keeping my meta data out of the system.
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