How to stop search engines from tracking you
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@JohnConnorBear If you're writing generically, for generic users, then i agree. If you're instead responding to me specifically [which it kinda sorta looks like you are, given you replied to me explicitly], then i disagree, in that:
- My earlier post https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/372274 specifically indicated i use a VPN, ergo neither my nasty fascist misgovernment nor my ISP theoretically get sighting of my data [afaik?].
- Same post specifically stated that i have installed & deployed
dnscrypt-proxy
--> fyi: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dnscrypt-proxy
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As I said on other occasions, the basic problem is not that Google and others track my activities "to improve the service", but that they sell these data to third parties, whose conditions and privacy I do not know and are not necessarily honest. This is not only an obvious privacy flaw, but a major security hole.
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This thread has become ouroborosific.
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@Steffie youβre welcome
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@JohnConnorBear , naturally I don't believe this "to improve the service" or "to" improve the user experience "of Google and MS, more than in an ironic sense.
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@catweazle: google says it does not sell your data to third parties. can you keep me some links which say otherwise please
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@ultraviolet said in How to stop search engines from tracking you:
@catweazle: google says it does not sell your data to third parties. can you keep me some links which say otherwise please
Some links
https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/privacy-technology/how-google-and-amazon-are-spying-you
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-tech-expert-says-we-should-stop-using-google-chrome
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7006196/google-location-tracking-history-map-turn-off-how/
https://securityboulevard.com/2019/11/does-google-read-your-email/etc.
https://vivaldi.com/es/blog/google-return-to-not-being-evil/ -
Dunno what it might mean, but hey, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey, out there on the lake, i just saw a bloke in a leather jacket on skis being towed by a boat, & i'll be damned if he didn't just jump clear over a shark.
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@JohnConnorBear , one thing is what Google wants, and another different from what the laws say about monopoly abuse and unfair competition. At this point Google has already received a blow to the teeth on several occasions, at least in the EC
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@JohnConnorBear , you cannot negotiate with Google, of course, but you can stop the abuse that is allowed in the United States. In order for Google to be able to operate in the CE, it has to comply with the CE regulations and laws, like any other commercial product in the CE.
Although the last word will have the user and if people use more and more alternative products to those of Google, which of course there are plenty of, I do not think that Google simply because of the commercial view of losing customers, is going to think very hard about insisting In changes that you predict.
That governments that place the needs of the lobiies before the interests of the people cannot be trusted too much, it goes without saying, but neither can one ignore the mandatory legislation that already exists. -