They are actually technically 100% correct with privacy protection, website-privacy-protection and actually protecting your privacy are two different things. Website privacy protection usually means secure channel plus following privacy and disclosure policy they state. Nothing more nothing less.
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As to rest of your reply - be careful not to break your paddle with all this backpedaling you are doing. Yes, you have no objective way of knowing as of yet, so it is all empty demagoguery.

If you feel like just trolling with chain letters "Ron Pal thread is -----> way".

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