Guys do you have a the solution or soewhere better to post this? i only found 3 privacy communties but most of the other ones are just privacy news (i hate news)
(this is my first post im new) ive noticed something no one seems to have a problem with. do you have this problem to? am i just doing something wrong?
i use a privacy friendly browser plus a privacy friendly os and use fingerprint spoofer/blocker. i watch videos on invidious. i noticed that the “popular” tab shows videos related to videos i watched before. even if i clear my cookies, or change my idenity in (offiscial) tor browser i still get recommended related videos meaning no matter what i do google knows what i watch. whats worse, if i go on invidious on a totally different device with a normal broswer normal os, i get the same videos. meaning websites know what videos i watch across multiple sessions but also multiple devices. im sick of this. it feels like i’ve tried everything, sacrificed so much connivence but no results.
(this isn’t a question spefecifically about youtube google or invindious just how to get webisites to stop knowing everything i do across multiple identities and every device i use)
Things I tried
*Proton vpn+librewolf(max security according to settings)+nosircpt+Ublock(with the filters it comes with)+ officisal recommended invidious instances+Quad9 via settings
*Tails+Tor browser(max security settings apprentaly)+default bridge+no javascirpt+fingerprint spoofing estendsion+bluetooth disabled by tails+all the previous mentioned (exculding vpn i heard its risky)+invidious again (Tails doesn’t work well for me the police are not after me and it takes so long to start and presisent stoarage is annoying)
*Qubes+Whonix vm+Tor browser(max again)+no javascript (I love and hate qubes from my first impression it meets my security needs and you can run any os in a vm on it but i wish it just worked. theres a steep learning curve and my hardware isn’t the best for it)
No results on any of these just slower internet and some websites are broken. Its just like using a normal browser that tracks you but slow as a privacy one. im getting tired of this. i use all this super deep level paranoid overkill stufff and nothing happens. like im burning my house to get rid of a spider but the spider is still there
possible causes
-google wireless access point (does qubes/whonix/tor NOT protect against this at all??) (also my family HATES any changes or mild inconveniences)
-i logged in to google without a vpn **ONCE **does this automatically doom you forever **even ** if you change os and browser and device?
-hardware is framework laptop
for clairtiy
I am not -a criminal -a journalist -a gooner -willing to go off grid in the woods I am -creeped out -tired -about to give up
My privacy goals
-be able to actually cut ties with my shadow profile and have websites not know everything ive done in my life -control what data brokers and compaines knsw -not have any website at all know every device i use -be able to use any network safely
I feel like giving up on privacy because nothing seems to work. the only results I get is slower more broken internet
Currently, the only way to be anonymous on the internet is Tor. Now, that’s a slow and “broken” internet. If you connect to the internet through an account you pay for under your verified ID, then they know who you are, and where you go online.
You can close your eyes, but they can still see you. You can break the chain in one spot, but they’ll rebuild it quickly in another spot. I make it sound hopeless because I think it is, ultimately.
You can either be on the internet, or you can live a private life. You can’t do both, not really. They’re hoping, and trying every day, to make it impossible for you to conceive of a life without the internet. They keep tearing down the pre-internet methods we might use to avoid them. And, they keep making it harder to avoid them online.
BTW, “they” are the billionaires, in case that’s not clear.
Again, except Tor.
ive tried tor in the real browser using tails. i dont feel anonymous at all. im not going to id verify and i never said i was. you can use the interent and have privacy even if its not perfect. what im asking for is to make it hard for websites to track me across all my devices and sessions no matter wht i do.
thnks for cyou coment though it helps more people see this post