There’s still value in turning the faucet off if you ask me. Especially if you’ve hardened security/privacy practices to better protect yourself moving forward.

I only got really serious about consistently using VPN’s, firewalls, adblockers, and more privacy centered browsers a few years ago. I would say over the last 8 to 12 months I finally started to see it pay off. I still don’t see a lot of ads if ever, and they are wildly off target when I do see them. Using email aliases that I regularly purge has also made a huge difference when it comes to password/info leaks in particular.

Now if I could only get my damn phone number under control… so tired of the endless spam texts