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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by akerro on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:43AM (#12760307)
Just don't have Google account and clean cookies and history regularly[1], forbid saving 3rd party cookies (built-in in Firefox) and noise your canvas generator [2], block 3rd party JS, CSS, media and fonts [3], control your referals your browser sends on each click [4] use VPN or Tor on startup. You don't need to bother with those tools, they will just work in background (µBlock requires some configuration).

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-gb/firefox/addon/expire-histor... [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-gb/firefox/addon/no-canvas-fin... [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-gb/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... [4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-gb/firefox/addon/refcontrol/

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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by oridecon on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:56AM (#12760947)
My Google account only runs in a separate browser. But I still do the things you mentioned (privacytools.io). For YouTube I'm using a RSS reader (no account) through a 3rd-party but I think they can still easily identify me.

I hope I can fully remove Google from my life in a few years.

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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by godshatter on Friday October 21, 2016 @07:47PM (#12765941)
I've also found it helps to use different Firefox profiles for different things, like hobbies, going to banks, going to anything google, programming stuff, etc. I have noscript, umatrix, and ghostery installed on each profile. I don't have it in front of me at the moment, but there is a Firefox command-line switch to bring the profile manager up when run.
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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by artificial on Friday October 21, 2016 @04:12PM (#12764226)
Excellent list, here's one you may not know about which locally hosts 3rd party libraries (such as jQuery) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes... to plug that hole while restoring some enhanced functionality. This alone got me back on Firefox.
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