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That's exponentially worse. Everything we do today is data mined. Data mining is by no means benign or innocent. It is invasive and pervasive. It's not just our web surfing, everything we do on the Internet, from any device, even devices we'd never think of are collecting and aggregating (distributing) that data all about our lives for a price. There are 2 other terms to know that go hand in hand with data mining. They are "Big Data" and The "Internet of Things". Look deep enough into these 3 subjects, the more frightening they become. Generally the data is *supposedly* anonymized (at least by Google, NOT by Facebook (Zuckerberg is on record for stating that "Privacy is dead")), but often it is not. Users can exert a certain amount of control by maintaining multiple compartmentalized online accounts but that does not isolate them when the same IP address ties everything back to them. Reporters have even taken "Anonymized" data and tracked people back to their homes to prove it could be done. Now Brave wants us to voluntarily self identify in a world where not only is all our data out there, but is being managed by people who don't know or care about protecting our privacy or even our identities (I mean as in having a life destroyed by having one's identity stolen). In exchange for $0.32 (5 year total) of unusable Bitcoin?!? No thank you.

Read "Everything is Broken". It's a scarey and sobering article. This stuff scares me. It's a subject I pay attention to. I don't want anyone reading this to be unprepared for the data and privacy threats happening under our noses RIGHT NOW.

KVR said
it was sarcasm

Stating the obvious, sometimes sarcasm doesn't translate. It didn't here.

I've edited the post.