This is What Happens to My Clicks

Two hours, twenty-three websites, and one hundred ninety-eight third-party requests for my data. Which sites I visited, what I looked at and for how long. Scary.

I can, and I did click on a few of those nodes to see who was buying - did I say "buying?" Yes, buying my data. Salesiq.zohopublic.com and cookies-data.onetrust.io are but two of these 198 sites, now grown to 235 while writing this post. I have a VPN, but there are some quirks. Without security verification, I can't send emails when connected or get into specific sites. Then, of course, I forget to reconnect.

How did I learn about this? Eli Pariser's TED Talks "Beware online "Filter bubbles" and Lightbeam.