I can tell you're young, because privacy's been dead since well before the 90s, but advances in tech certainly have dug it up and given it more public beatings just so everyone has gotten the message. And Jesus, there are coins that offer way more privacy than bitcoin anyway. What OP is blibber-blabbering about I just don't get unless that account is a bot or there was some AI used.
I don’t know if I’m that young, I’m from the mid-80s, but I understand what you’re saying. Maybe depending on the geographical location we can consider privacy differently back then. But the impression I get is that in those days, even if there was some monitoring, it was much, much lower than it is today, a time when there weren’t even cell phones tracking people through every cell tower.