Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 days agoTrue Incognito mode is a myth, it only stops keeping a history in the tab of that browser. Everytime you use a browser to go to any site ever, the browser logs you went there. So does your ISP and the site your connecting to.
The closest you can come to browsing the web anonymously would be with a mix of dedicated privacy OS like Tails and either a VPN or Tor as a middile man, but that assumes those proxys are not corrupted. Free VPNs make money by selling your "secret browsing*.
The internet is nothing more than wires, if you connect your wire to someone elses, every intermediatary knows.
Blizzard@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
You can use uBlock Origin and other privacy add-ons to block tracking and a VPN to hide your IP address but if you’re logged in to a search engine’s account then everything you search is tied to you no matter what you do.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If you’re logged in a vpn that’s also true of the vpn, and all these measures are not stopping FAANGS
Blizzard@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Good VPN providers take certain measures to ensure your anonymity.
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
A vpn is not a proxy and cannot do anything to protect you beyond changing your exit point. You are not anonymous using a vpn, especially not with any vpn that has servers in a five eyes country.