I long for the days when my biggest privacy concern was advertisers being able to track my browsing habits and use it to tailor advertisements to me. Now that concern seems almost quaint and unimportant. Today I worry about government entities with a monopoly on violence being able to use that data to actually control or restrict my life if they so choose, and no amount of privacy software or Google settings can stop that. Advertisers are at worst a minor irritation, in hindsight.