privacy

9792 readers

10 users here now

Big tech and governments are monitoring and recording your eating activities. c/Privacy provides tips and tricks to protect your privacy against global surveillance.

Partners:

community.nicfab.it/c/privacy

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

Kokomheart@lemmy.ca

QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz

altair222@beehaw.org

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

41 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This is about cookie banners on websites

There was another time I got into a very serious ontological discussion with a fairly senior engineer about what the difference was between taxes and fines and they didn’t understand there was a difference,” he said.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your ISP and browser can see everything you do, but your search engine can only see what you're doing when you're actively on the site, and through cookies. Same with those other sites. Using incognito absolutely helps with that.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

That's plain false. With a VPN enabled, the ISP can see data volume and time stamps, and what VPN server you're connected to. Nothing else.

Your browser, depends on the browser. Chrome, Edge, etc., yeah, they're watching everything you do. An open-source privacy-focused browser with maximum privacy settings enabled is not watching as much, if anything at all.

And incognito doesn't hide your fingerprint from search engines or websites. It's basically worthless for privacy. All it does is clear cookies, caches, and browsing history from the local device.