Get Real! wrote:Sotos wrote:It is very easy to disable that kind of tracking in most browsers. That kind of tracking is used mainly for targeted advertising. What you can't easily do, and your browser can't do, is avoid the tracking that can be done by ISPs (and the governments behind them). So you can claim that your browser blocks ads and tracking used for advertising, which can be very easily done with many other browsers, but you can't claim that that by using your browser NSA can't track you because that is not true.
If somebody wants a additional privacy they can easily do it on their favorite browser. If they want maximum privacy they would use something like the Tor Browser.
It doesn't just stop there with commercial browsers... they phone home to multiple servers, they keep surfing history in multiple ways, and there's more... but I haven't got time.
Get Real,
what you are trying to circumvent is the tracking by large firms like Google, which is only for advertising. Google is the biggest advertising firm on the planet so no one can hardly blame them for their money making algorithms. Their objective is to make more profits and money.
This tracking is probably the most innocent and benign to the end user despite all the hoohah. What you can't stop no matter what search engine you use or what browser you use is the Government Agencies which can track you through your ISP legally because they have passed metadata retention laws. The Government can access your metadata anytime they want.
Not just that but they can monitor people in a variety of ways. Such as through your Medical Records, Tax Information, Banking, Credit Cards, Passports, ID cards, Smart Phones and so on.
These Government Agencies also work on budgets of several Billions, so they have all the resources to track you in many ways - even by satellite if you are on their watch lists which no one here would be.
So good luck .... some countries like UAE, USA and Australia are even mapping people's eyeballs now which is even more better than finger-printing.
You seem to thing Google is in bed with Governments. Fact is they are not. Government's have legislated new terror laws and metadata retention through your ISP and there isn't anything Google or your ISP can do about it.
If agencies like the NSA and CIA want, your ass is grass!
And if they don't like you, you will get a nice little reception at the border where you will be singled out of the blue for an interview and investigation. They will not let you in without criminal records sometimes and they will ask YOUR government for it too.
