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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by icebraining on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:10AM (#17884310)
What makes you think your VPN company isn't selling your net usage data to Google?
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by auslander on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:19AM (#17884345)
I carefully selected it :) Even if it does, there are other benefits:

- ISP has no clue what you do

- Your IP is hidden, major feature for fingerprinting you by websites, trackers and Google.

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