- Jul 28, 2014
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So there are many privacy guides out there telling you to get rid of google chrome and use a safer and more privacy oriented browser like Brave or Firefox. They also recommend using a VPN to help anonymize yourself. However since google owns most things these days, from the search engine, to youtube, to gmail, and even google docs, all of which can be linked through your google account, is there even any point of trying to hide yourself from google anymore?
You could be using firefox with all the recommended settings for the best privacy, and be surfing the web over a VPN that takes your privacy very seriously, however the moment you login to your google account on youtube, gmail or even google search your identity is immediately revealed. Even though there are many alternatives to google products such as duckduckgo, protonmail etc, there are certain products such as youtube that doesn't really have a strong competitor in the market right now, so you are forced to stay on youtube.
I'd love to hear what you guys think of this and maybe get some of your inputs and suggestions further steps to take to break free from this google monopolized era (I say as I type this from my google chrome browser)
You could be using firefox with all the recommended settings for the best privacy, and be surfing the web over a VPN that takes your privacy very seriously, however the moment you login to your google account on youtube, gmail or even google search your identity is immediately revealed. Even though there are many alternatives to google products such as duckduckgo, protonmail etc, there are certain products such as youtube that doesn't really have a strong competitor in the market right now, so you are forced to stay on youtube.
I'd love to hear what you guys think of this and maybe get some of your inputs and suggestions further steps to take to break free from this google monopolized era (I say as I type this from my google chrome browser)