>>33619768Back when the Internet was still sort of novel there was a big media scare about how perverts are going to rape your kids or something so it was all over the place that you never use any personally identifying information.
Later on, spyware became a big topic and everyone was always talking about how to stay away from whatever the latest spyware was.
Then all the major Internet companies found out they could make a boatload of money off of personal information and that's that. Everything is spyware now and nobody talks about it.