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How to prevent websites from tracking you (all browsers)
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this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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Websites don't need your IP to accurately remember you and track you. Using a VPN only helps when you want to hide stuff from your ISP, nothing else.
...and that is a good thing as ISPs are some of the worst companies with the worst privacy policies and a penchant for selling any data they collect from you to the highest bidder...and any other bidder as well
Sure but without extra measures the same plus a lot of more data is just sold by all the other companies and chances are your VPN company is just taking over the role of your ISP. If you want to browser somewhat more privately try to reduce your fingerprint first before trusting some VPN company just because they say so.
I am pretty sure that my VPN provider (Mullvad) is not some shitty, fly by night company doing, say, Verizon-style shitty things