66 trackers blocked in Brave on this website. Can someone explain what all these trackers are needed for versus on websites with less? Facebook or Discord or Twitter only have 1 or 0 blocked and I'm sure they are tracking my just as much.

This seems to be a technological problem. We will soon need secured, authenticated modes of communication that can verify a person’s voice.

A similar problem is emerging for photos and videos. We also soon need cryptographically signed devices in order to be used in journalism or to be admissible in court.

Otherwise we are going back 150 years where we depend on in-person communication and eyewitness accounts.

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This is why we need to prevent data breaches by not collecting the data in the first place as well as move to non-persistant identifiers for contacts. Nobody could scam you if you only used Signal usernames or SimpleX addresses because you just change them for each contact and they don't get breached because services don't ask for them.

This scam wouldn't have been possible if the scammer couldn't easily look up someone's name, pay a few dollars, and see where they live, their phone numbers, email addresses, and family members. It's not as much of a problem in Europe because of the GDPR, but in France their government cybersecurity is nonexistant so everything has been breached repeatedly so it's the same effect.

It's insane this type of data broker hasn't been banned and why I will never register to vote.

Every piece of data you give away is a liability, not just for the services tracking you, which some people might defend, but for cybercrime and data breaches.