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How does this website know who you are?


Did you know that something like 80% of the websites you visit are tracked by a handful of companies which are all effectively sharing that with many thousands of ad and data broker companies which can easily narrow you down? It's not tinfoil hat land to knkw that nearly every site you visit has cross-site tracking.


Well yea but as far as I know these companies know your identity but the website only know you as a number shown in statistics.

So if this thing isn't a trap from big tech you are fine.




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