In which we revisit the topic of deleting online accounts, and the enormous difficulty of avoiding creating new ones, followed by extended ranting and raving at summer camp software and what prime pickings it is for both security and privacy breaches.

In which we discuss how we unknowingly got suckered into household-unfriendly tech practices, how we noticed them, how we reformed them, and how it's really an ongoing process. The earbud ends up being the villain of this story, strangely enough.

In which we discuss the multi-year process of arousing interest in digital tech issues at our child's school, and how we finally got some traction.

In which we describe all the steps we took to keep our identity private in distributing this podcast, and how we are so deeply entangled in so many web systems that our cover got blown anyway, which is a frankly ridiculous thing to worry about since voice recognition means we couldn't keep our identity a secret if anyone was really determined to figure it, but still.

In which we review the results of the podfasting experiment and what happens when you install blocking software on your web browser, then move into "telemetry" and all the ways smartphone apps extract information about you, even when you're not using them.

In which we discuss an experiment in abstaining from all spoken word audio for a time, using podcasts as a crutch to mask loneliness, and the general isolation of our times greatly exacerbated by anti-covid measures.

In which one of us relates her woes trying to buy crypto without even being especially private about it, and the other ruminates on the virtues of cash as the only really functional way to buy privately, which should tell you that a lot of companies are paying a lot of money to know what you buy with debit and credit cards.

In which one of us describes a vivid dream that expresses her feelings about all this, and we ponder the evil and exploitation that was pawned off on us unexpecting innocents without our knowledge, though we did fall for the promise of free, so we partly deserve it.

In which we are so overwhelmed by the massiveness of the task of disentangling ourselves from the privacy-violating tentacles of the world wide web that we have to stop, breathe, and reassess the end game.

In which one of explains his realization that credit agencies are tabulating reams of data on every one of us, how he tried to freeze his credit reports, how he got fooled into locking them instead, the difference between the two, and why you should also freeze your own credit reports.