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As in, nobody could go "Ah, the PM/post made 7 months was made by a user which had this IP address". 
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With a simple answer, no. :sun

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Additionally, outside of this site, I take it privacy pretty much doesn't exist then on the internet, hahaha! I always used to think 'odd, I was just thinking about that product, what a coincidence it came up in an ad'... But yikes, so google [i]has[/i] been literally tracking me to a limited extent to tempt me into buying something... Reminds me of https://youtu.be/YMPQdaq-qqk (20 second meme video, but scarily relevent).
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Your most valuable asset online is your meta-data and history of what you search on Google, Amazon, etc. Have a think about it this way. Who is going to make more money off you? Some hacker who may trick you into downloading some sketchy looking software, or a company like Amazon and Google who noticed that you were looking up details about a particular product?

For example with me, if I open YouTube on my phone now the first advert I can see is one from Expedia, a site about holiday travel. This is because I have been thinking about going on a trip back to Japan for a while and my history indicates that I have an Interest in Japan. As such the image that it shows is of a man with a red Japanese paper lantern. If I go onto Facebook the first advert that it shows is Omnidesk, a company that focuses on Office Furniture cause I've been looking at getting a new chair for my Computer.

Tracking a user is not necessarily a bad thing as companies can use that data to expand their businesses and reach new customers, while also spending less on customers that aren't interested in what they are selling. With this day and age it is actually very easy to start up a pop up business in your garage, import a bunch of sunglasses from an overseas manufacturer with your logo on it, and resell them to people as an online retailer. Sites like SquareSpace offer users the ability to have a shop front, and this overall creates an economy.

You can actually look up a lot of your data if you have a Google account. By going to "Manage your Google Account" you can download your data, see what third party apps and services you have connected, etc. I can even see the history of my phone usage and the notifications that I have had.
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This is not to say that you should throw your privacy out of the window, no, but what this is to explain is that there are some aspects that you can be cautious about (like not downloading from that dodgy site), and some aspects of your internet activity is always gonna be visible.

The best recommendation I can say is to make sure you're always on https not just http.
[quote]HTTPS: What are the differences? HTTPS is HTTP with encryption and verification. The only difference between the two protocols is that HTTPS uses TLS (SSL) to encrypt normal HTTP requests and responses, and to digitally sign those requests and responses. As a result, HTTPS is far more secure than HTTP.[/quote]