most websites with logins have a unique user page that only that user really visits
etc. etc.
The solutions to that are not so easy. One good way is a browser that protects its users.
Brave I believe helps there. As you might tell from my User-Agent I user Firefox. I have many add-ons which block that stuff. I had to turn them off to generate that fingerprint and discover the tracking, uBlock & NoScript I find essential but it does burden me with extra work turning Javascript on manually when a site doesn't work.
The Tor Browser, the most secure of all, doesn't have Javascript to protect you from yourself!
Sorry, all a bit technical but that's how it is in the Cyberwars
I'm not convinced about the Brave business model but the browser is a shit ton better than Chrome.
As I don't use it I can't really give much of a review. I have read on here it has built in Tor which is like a VPN and you can access the Dark Web (scary words for not so scary a thing). I use Tor myself for a few things, like accessing my Proton Mail. The Tor system has never been broken for a criminal prosecution. Anyone who has been caught for a cybercrime through Tor gave themselves away outside of Tor - one bomb threat was just a timing thing "logged off the Uni network [placed bomb threat on Tor], logged back into Uni network"
Privacy from whom?
A VPN protects you from your ISP (Comcast or whoever). The real enemy in the data wars are the trackers placed on websites such as Google Analytics.
for instance I shall go to TheHill.com and see who they tell about my visit
https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=10314615&c3=&c4=https%3A//thehill.com/&c5=&c6=&c15=&cv=2.0&cj=1
So now they all know I went to TheHill
Then I go to the Guardian and what do I see
our good friend
https://sb.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=2&c2=6035250&cv=2.0&cj=1&cs_ucfr=0&comscorekw=Cookies%20and%20web%20tracking
If we look at :
https://www.amiunique.org/fp
I have some very rare browser attributes
User Agent - only 0.04% of the net has the same as me: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0
Only 0.01% has the same list of fonts
Less than 0.01% has the same WebGL Renderer
So, your IP address is the least of your concerns when it comes to privacy and tracking.
"But that's all anonymous" some might say "how does anyone know who is behind the browser"
Well, who would visit my LinkedIn profile more than once or twice? The profile has a unique number
Who would visit my facebook profile more than a couple of times it too has a unique number in it (this is a random number I typed, I am not Loubna Elouahabi) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007851785986
who visits https://thedonald.win/u/the-new-style/ apart from salty folk downvoting all my comments
most websites with logins have a unique user page that only that user really visits
etc. etc.
The solutions to that are not so easy. One good way is a browser that protects its users.
Brave I believe helps there. As you might tell from my User-Agent I user Firefox. I have many add-ons which block that stuff. I had to turn them off to generate that fingerprint and discover the tracking, uBlock & NoScript I find essential but it does burden me with extra work turning Javascript on manually when a site doesn't work.
The Tor Browser, the most secure of all, doesn't have Javascript to protect you from yourself!
Sorry, all a bit technical but that's how it is in the Cyberwars
I'm not convinced about the Brave business model but the browser is a shit ton better than Chrome.
As I don't use it I can't really give much of a review. I have read on here it has built in Tor which is like a VPN and you can access the Dark Web (scary words for not so scary a thing). I use Tor myself for a few things, like accessing my Proton Mail. The Tor system has never been broken for a criminal prosecution. Anyone who has been caught for a cybercrime through Tor gave themselves away outside of Tor - one bomb threat was just a timing thing "logged off the Uni network [placed bomb threat on Tor], logged back into Uni network"