It's vital to remember that a VPN only protects you against IP-tracking. There are other types of tracking. The most common one is cookie-trackers. Websites you visit store a cookie on your machine (or lets a 3rd party), with a unique ID on it. On another site, a background request to the first site (an image, for example) accesses that cookie and finds that unique ID again, identifying you.
Any partners who share this data can easily identify you this way. Which is why GDPR is great, but fairly easy to circumvent, if they are evil or if you are careless -easily done, since it's REALLY tiresome to go through ALLLLL those options every time they 'forget' you said "you can remember my choice with a 'local-storage only' cookie".
So, make sure you do not allow '3rd party cookies' (e.g. using BRAVE browser). Otherwise all those site you DO allow to set cookies may eventually be the ones holding the gates open for all the other snoopers.
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It's vital to remember that a VPN only protects you against IP-tracking. There are other types of tracking. The most common one is cookie-trackers. Websites you visit store a cookie on your machine (or lets a 3rd party), with a unique ID on it. On another site, a background request to the first site (an image, for example) accesses that cookie and finds that unique ID again, identifying you.
Any partners who share this data can easily identify you this way. Which is why GDPR is great, but fairly easy to circumvent, if they are evil or if you are careless -easily done, since it's REALLY tiresome to go through ALLLLL those options every time they 'forget' you said "you can remember my choice with a 'local-storage only' cookie".
So, make sure you do not allow '3rd party cookies' (e.g. using BRAVE browser). Otherwise all those site you DO allow to set cookies may eventually be the ones holding the gates open for all the other snoopers.
Very good point! I've been using Brave on my laptop for a while and it's been a nice experience.