I don't want to be tracked and traced ! 8 June 2022 at 6:08PM edited 13 June 2022 at 12:12PM in Praise, vent & warnings 33 replies 3.1K views

Charlie90210

How can I Walk into supermarkets and buy shopping anonymously when cash becomes extinct?

I don't want to use my bank card and be tracked and traced.

What is wrong with these silly daft sheep humans? , they all love being tracked and traced by using their card.

Yes ! I know we can't beat the big brother surveillance, but why make it easy!

And before anyone says that I'm give out my location on here, I use VPN and a pay as you go phone 

turnitround

So you dont have a NI number, pay tax, have household bills on direct debit, have a medical record, driving licence, passport, vehicle registered, etc. 

400ixl

You will be easy to spot as the one wearing the tin foil hat around the supermarket. ;-)

Using a VPN does not stop your browsing from being tracked back to an individual, so most likely you are being tracked, you just don't know it.

By all means take reasonable measures but don't for one second believe you are avoiding being tracked in some form.

The vast majority of people don't want the hassle and are not objecting to passive tracking. There is nothing wrong with this and some will even actively give their information if they believe the reward is to their advantage.

As for your question, it is highly unlikely supermarkets will stop tacking cash for a long while so probably not a concern for at least the next decade.

PLRFD

Just pay by bitcoin.

elsien

Charlie90210 said:

How can I Walk into supermarkets and buy shopping anonymously when cash becomes extinct?

I don't want to use my bank card and be tracked and traced.

What is wrong with these silly daft sheep humans? , they all love being tracked and traced by using their card.

Yes ! I know we can't beat the big brother surveillance, but why make it easy!

And before anyone says that I'm give out my location on here, I use VPN and a pay as you go phone 

Stop shopping in supermarkets?
Barter economy?
Allotment?
Yurt in Scotland? 
The world’s your lobster. Unless you’re paying for it by card, obviously? 

tastyhog

Cash isn't going away, not in our lifetime anyway

jon81uk

Deleted_User said:

Worse is Tesco offering much lower prices for club card holders.
so if I don’t want a club card I have to pay more.
no thanks Tesco.

Yep if you don't want to be tracked then loyalty cards do far more tracking than bank cards would.

tastyhog said:

Cash isn't going away, not in our lifetime anyway

Many many businesses are going cash only though, it reduces their insurance bill, less time and effort and lower cost to bank it all. So although cash won't go away for some time, there will be many places that refuse to accept it.

MrsStepford

I haven't used cash in at least 10 years. Mostly, I use PayPal, which means that the merchant doesn't get my card number. I have a clubcard but don't like the Tesco pricing policy. 

diystarter7

We only used cash for fish n chips and the like or when at the seaside. However, since Covid, we feel like the Royal family, is cashless. TBH, I keep about 20 quid in change for parking as I'm not great with mobile phones/etc. but that is about it.

The newer notes not bad but it makes me cringe when touching money/notes when I recall people at work, public toilets having a number two and not washing their hands never mind a number one. Then I see people with their finger up their nostrils and wipe on their clothing or, (sorry about this) a few months back as I drove in nose to tail traffic a man put his thing on one nostril, blew out a massive greenie and then shook his hand to clean it and then spat on the ground - these are the same people that handle the money we could touch or the door handles at shops/etc.

I did not feel as disgusted before Covid re touching money etc but I guess Covid and  most of us semi-forced into contactless transactions etc has driven me over the edge.

elsien

People have been picking their noses (or worse) and handling cash for hundreds of years. The human race has survived. 

Every time you touch anything in a shop or other public area  you run the risk of a dirty so and so having touched it. What’s so different about cash? 

Rosa_Damascena

diystarter7 said:

We only used cash for fish n chips and the like or when at the seaside. However, since Covid, we feel like the Royal family, is cashless. TBH, I keep about 20 quid in change for parking as I'm not great with mobile phones/etc. but that is about it.

The newer notes not bad but it makes me cringe when touching money/notes when I recall people at work, public toilets having a number two and not washing their hands never mind a number one. Then I see people with their finger up their nostrils and wipe on their clothing or, (sorry about this) a few months back as I drove in nose to tail traffic a man put his thing on one nostril, blew out a massive greenie and then shook his hand to clean it and then spat on the ground - these are the same people that handle the money we could touch or the door handles at shops/etc.

I did not feel as disgusted before Covid re touching money etc but I guess Covid and  most of us semi-forced into contactless transactions etc has driven me over the edge.

People are just disgusting, aren't they?