I will just make one example to show you the gist of it:
See this link:
https://www.reuters.com/article/U.S.-israel-netanyahu-wife/wife-of-israeli-prime-minister-goes-on-trial-for-fraud-idUSKCN1MH0IJ?utm_source=reddit.com
In that last part: "idUSKCN1MH0IJ?utm_source=reddit.com" there is hidden alot of info. As you can see it starts with id, which means YOU. Then most likely comes nation (US). And then the rest of the code follows, and which is uniquely tied to your digital self/life. And at the end it says reddit.com. That further means that it was found through browsing reddit.com.
I could make a larger post at some point where I try to conceptualize how I think the NSA/PRISM collection on us looks. But suffice it to say this ID-tracker the NSA has access to. And every other site that you visit. They have it all stored. And then they can follow your links to whereever you post them. You post them in a Messenger-chat, NSA has that conversation up. You post it to your wall on Facebook, NSA knows who clicked it and so on. You go to another site, Google's tracker that follow every link that you click, NSA has it. (Check out http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1 for an insane mindfuck of how many trackers are tracking you!!!). This almost became that post... So even further, I must imagine they have a tag-cloud that can be used as a quick "personality profile". "This person watched this site which has a lot of THIS information. This person posted THAT link on Facebook. This person has THIS many Instagram followers. This person follows THIS person which can be categorized as THAT kind of person who talks about THIS and THAT." And so on and so on. (Not to speak of porn and other things too). It's a really comprehensive info-file they have on each and one of us. And YES, in a way, we should be furious about this! Because who is watching the ones watching us? Give $10 million to a person with access and you could have the file of ANYONE in the west and use that information for whatever you chose.
You're welcome!
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[–] 14539019? 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago
Man, some of you people are stupid.
If you search for that article it always comes up to with the same URL minus the query string (query string is everything from the question mark on). The ID is attached to the article and doesn't have shit to do with you. They could, theoretically, change the ID number on another version of the article to track how it was distributed (like IDXYZ123 was posted on Facebook, IDABC321 was posted on Twitter, etc.). But it's probably not even that complicated, it's probably just a number assigned by their content management system. The utm_source query string value is to track where they're getting traffic fed from.
You are tracked by your physical link (even if that physical link is WiFi) and your browser fingerprint (which includes but is not limited to cookies). That's tied together to the other shit you're talking about (social media profiles, etc.) through embedding trackers in websites (for example, Google analytics and "share this bullshit article on Facebook" widgets.
There's no way to hide on the public web, so either stop worrying about it or stop using the web.
[–] 14541123? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You are right.
Don't forget pixel trackers, cookies, javascript -- these can all be used to gather your browsing habits without ever sharing anything through links! Plus most browsers are so "friendly" they'll just straight up tell websites where you came from!
[–] 14539445? 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Shut the fuck up putting people down.
[–] 14882781? [S] ago (edited ago)
TOP SECRET: Squeaky Dolphin. Broad real-time monitoring of online activity of: "Youtube Video Views, URL's liked on Facebook, Blogspot/Blogger Visits.