Privacy is not one dimensional issue. Improving privacy towards some goal may reduce privacy against some other goal.
For example: Mass surveillance and targeted surveillance are different privacy scenarios. Mass surveillance becomes ineffective when it becomes too expensive to identify people in the large scale even if they are not secure against targeted surveillance.
If CIA mass surveillance is your concern, good VPN, Tor and other privacy tools puts you into their radar faster than buying second laptop to do your private stuff without any privacy tools. Targeting and deanonymizing just just few million privacy conscious people using Tor justifies more work per user than large scale mass surveillance of billion people.
Anyone using Tor or good VPN will be be in the much smaller pool of users who CIA/NSA may not be able to identify quickly but who they are interested in knowing better.
If you want to avoid Facebook and other commercial trackers, VPN combined with good tools goes a long way.
For example: Mass surveillance and targeted surveillance are different privacy scenarios. Mass surveillance becomes ineffective when it becomes too expensive to identify people in the large scale even if they are not secure against targeted surveillance.
If CIA mass surveillance is your concern, good VPN, Tor and other privacy tools puts you into their radar faster than buying second laptop to do your private stuff without any privacy tools. Targeting and deanonymizing just just few million privacy conscious people using Tor justifies more work per user than large scale mass surveillance of billion people.
Anyone using Tor or good VPN will be be in the much smaller pool of users who CIA/NSA may not be able to identify quickly but who they are interested in knowing better.
If you want to avoid Facebook and other commercial trackers, VPN combined with good tools goes a long way.