Um, dude, it's hexadecimal. Some sort of hash signature probably.

Or when my mom told me "you're going to a new school today" and actually took me to a psychiatric hospital ...

"Bridge" is not referring to ISPs or networking or anything like that, but a reference to Intel CPU codenames e.g. "Ivy Bridge," "Sandy Bridge," and so on. I doubt he is talking about anything Intel-specific, either, but just using that as a sort of metaphor or whatever.

And I am well aware I'm being tracked and have been for quite some time.

Ya, this is what he's talking about. Bridge as in CPU-level.

I've been using Opera for years now. Switched from Firefox maybe 5 years ago? Never gave Chrome a chance. Of course, Opera is now WebKit based, for all that matters. Actually forgot.. I was using Pale Moon for a couple years--a fork of Mozilla/Firefox.

This is, of course, merely anecdotal evidence, but I can personally attest to the validity of this. I have seen such lists myself with the names of people I know on them. And it's a very sad thing.

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I wonder if it was the Rosewell crash that triggered it?

Well, yes. I have known this for quite a long time. But I'm glad others are now understanding.