Thank you for the kind words, but I could not live without muckin' about with the world and yanking its chain from time to time. It sometimes needs a quick swat to keep it from going entirely off the rails. The trick is to have FUN with it, not expecting it to fall into line and actually make sense. ;-) There are, after all, so many PEOPLE out there and they almost NEVER make sense! :-)

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Depends what you mean by "metadata".

Cross-site cookies are one thing.

But if you're talking about stuff like what PRISM hoovers up, or what might be collected in a law enforcement investigation, then that's something else.

@dugan I thought the OP specifically asked about brokers, which falls outside of enforcement category.
The #1 problem, IMO, is some backwater ISPs all wannabe verizon, create captive portals & inject ads into websites for a living.
And then what happens, and was fairly common in EU before gdpr happened, is they scare people into thinking filtering is illegal.
So, you often get a "vpn advice" from these people, whose only agenda is to sell users' browsing history to a highest bidder.
It probably has a lot more to do with geolocation, and less to do with the OS security features, as it happens on all platforms.

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