I do so I don't get ads for what I just bought for weeks.
I do so I don't get ads for what I just bought for weeks.
Me also...I shop logged out in my heavily privacy-modded regular browser and then do just the buying in a logged-in incognito stock browser. Very few sites will correlate IPs.
DuckDuckGo, for us.
We kick them a bit of cash once a year in exchange for not harvesting our personal data for ads. Not sure if it's the same as incognito motde, but it seems to work.
Noddaz said:so I don't get ads for what I just bought for weeks.
It's funny that their system is so bad you don't get the ads until after you've actually bought the product they're trying to sell you. I put things in my basket but don't follow through hoping they'll email me with a 10% discount offer to convince me to buy it.
Spam filter, on-board ad blocker, and the ads that do get through I just ignore.
They have data mining so nefarious these days, there is really no way around it. It's like a swimming pool with 50 holes in it and incognito mode patches one hole and tells you "I fixed it."
I do. The final piece I need for a full no friggin ad zone will be transforming my Raspberry Pi into a Pi-Hole for my home network.
I do so my family can't see what I'm buying them for gifts. I can't browse Amazon for toys without the kids seeing "you recently viewed" on a tablet. I had to make a separate account at one store just to shop in secret for Christmas.
Funny somewhat related note, I think it's possible to see what your friends are watching on Youtube through recommended videos. I often see videos recommended just before people send me links or publish them to a blog. Even though I give Youtube the same treatment as the shopping sites, I only log in to upload and I do it through an incognito browser.
(Also I log into 2 different accounts pretty evenly to upload and the recommendations there are super generic, so I seem to have an independent "shadow profile" going on in my privacy-modded browser)
I don't do that, but I did recently get an account on facebook simply so I can Marketplace and keep up with the rallyx schedule. I have a linux VM that has firefox installed with the Facebook Containers extension. When I'm not actively using facebook, the virtual NIC is disconnected. That VM is used for absolutely nothing else. Not clicking any links, not going to any other sites ever, not copying and pasting any links back to my regular browser or my phone. I'm hoping that at least slows down the data collection.
GIRTHQUAKE said:I do. The final piece I need for a full no friggin ad zone will be transforming my Raspberry Pi into a Pi-Hole for my home network.
I <3 my Pi-Hole, and I don't care who knows!
You guys get ads?
Firefox Focus will clear all your details ,
In reply to WonkoTheSane :
Thirded. It's a pretty brilliant piece of kit. Cheap, seemless, effective
No. Oh no! The internet knows I bought another set of Lego's! THE HORROR!
But seriously I like the idea of a PiHole, but have no idea how that would possibly impact my VPN and work stuff I need to access.
In reply to WonkoTheSane :
PiHole is great which reminds me I need to get mine up and running again.
In reply to z31maniac :
You can White list anything you need that is blocked, it will just take some time to get it all working.
I use the work computer. It's their baby to worry about.
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
*Pi-Hole for my home network
That just may be what I didn't know I was looking for.
They can know everything about me.
I want them to know. I hope it keeps them up at night.
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