internet funeral

Haha you skimmed and got things wrong (where the right answer is in my post history) but I don't think you have countered my point - which was that this info is anonymous. You know (or could have with better attention to detail) details about me, but they are anonymous details, you couldn't use them to identify me but it's plenty to target ads.

Your counterpoints about VPNs and dumb TVs etc are not actually counterpoints to my post, because my point was that deleting social media makes you anonymous but not private.

And "they" is corporates. Governments for sure have much more detail about you and for the most part it's not anonymous. Not in a nefarious way, just in an "if you think about it" way. In my country, between the tax department, the health department, the education department, the transport department (driver licences), the internal affairs department (birth, marriage, citizenship, passport information), police, immigration (border movements), and many other departments with records, the government can for sure get a large amount of info about an individual that is neither anonymous nor private. Plus, the government knows to a much better level what info is real.