Crums my devices are full of adverts for pretty dresses and shoes. DADT here and my wife never comments as to why.
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Crums my devices are full of adverts for pretty dresses and shoes. DADT here and my wife never comments as to why.
A lot of advising for VPN here, but you may want to ask yourself two questions:
- Do you know these companies so well that you trust them more with your browsing data than your well-established ISP?
- A lot of them offer very low rates for the service offered. Ever wonder how these are actually making money?
Google, for example, is often presented as the evil, but in reality they just sell ad targeting. And share little data about you to their customers, since said data is their golden hen. Of course you may not like the business model, but at least you know what it is.
What is the business model of your favorite VPN provider?
And your favorite Ad blocker's?
I understand the concern of a ISP or VPN selling data, but do they sell "personal" data, or just we had "X" number of customers search for whatever.
IMO, it is darned hard to be on the internet and not have someone log you traffic. What they do with it is another thing. If the sell traffic numbers, fine, if the say Pumped went to this website and that website starts sending me adds in relation to my internet use, I would prefer to avoid that.
A typical ad-targeting company like Google won't tell that Pumped likes to buy red cars. It will guarantee to companies selling red cars that their ads will be seen by Google users who love red cars, without the seller knowing who exactly. Google will then charge them fees when a user clicks one of these ads (or obviously sees the ad, for example before a Youtube video).
As for what your VPN provider does, that is generally open to conjectures. They pretend they keep your data private and don't sell any browsing information. There is a possibility that they stick to what they promise. There is a possibility that they don't. Regarding ISPs, some (like Orange in France) are known to have sold some of their customers' data. While it makes sense for a Google or Facebook providing services free of charge, it is quite shocking (at least to me) from a paid service provider.
Change your setting for history and cookies and have them cleared each time you close the browser.
Also I use CCleaner and it clears the cookies and temp files and all that so those annoying things don't appear.
Having the browser delete cookies, etc., when you log out helps, but big tech already knows which sites you've visited.
The best thing is to use a VPN.