Re:PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services
by novaleaf on Sunday June 30, 2019 @11:21AM
(#20318663)
What I do, and all the sites I visit (techie) are surprisingly not broken (aside from recaptcha spam):
1) use Firefox with multi-account containers, and disable 3rd party cookies.
2) put youtube in it's own "youtube" container. do not login to that container
3) put all other google stuff in it's own "google" container
If you do that, and don't login to google except in the "google" container it makes it more difficult for google to know who you are on youtube or other non-google sites.
But to make it so they REALLY don't know who you are, you need to do the above plus use a VPN. In my own usage I've discovered that youtube will recommend you videos based on your IP address's recent views if your not logged in.
1) use Firefox with multi-account containers, and disable 3rd party cookies.
2) put youtube in it's own "youtube" container. do not login to that container
3) put all other google stuff in it's own "google" container
If you do that, and don't login to google except in the "google" container it makes it more difficult for google to know who you are on youtube or other non-google sites.
But to make it so they REALLY don't know who you are, you need to do the above plus use a VPN. In my own usage I've discovered that youtube will recommend you videos based on your IP address's recent views if your not logged in.