I’m newish to the privacy world, and thus have been… lax in prior years. So my ads are still very targeted. I’ve seen stuff about Incogni, and their whole deal, and wanted to ask y’all if it’s legit/worth it?

  • CyborganismEnglish
    101·
    1 month ago

    Use Firefox with Ublock Origin extension. Available both on PC/Mac and mobile. You can also enable the extension in incognito mode. This will prevent you from seeing ads in your browser.

    Incognito mode creates a temporary profile where as soon as you close the window, all cookies and history are deleted in that profile.

    However, websites can still collect information about you thanks to your IP address and browser fingerprint.

    If you want more anonymity, I suggest using a VPN. Proton VPN and Nord VPN are two very recommended services.

    Edit: I completely misunderstood that you were talking about something else entirely.

    I’ll leave my comment up anyway in case anyone might find it useful.

      • CyborganismEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Any particular reason?

        I would prefer Proton over Mullvad for the fact they are located in Switzerland, which means your information is completely private from international governments, agencies or businesses because of the privacy laws there. They are also a non profit organization whose purpose is to provide privacy services to its users. As a non-profit, they have the obligation to do just that and can be held liable if they don’t respect their mission.

        • festnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          mullvad is based on sweden, which basically means the same as what you said about switzerland. mullvad’s goal is also to provide privacy to its users, even if they aren’t a non profit.

          mullvad was raided by police once. the police had a search warrant, so mullvad wouldn’t be able to do anything to stop them. the police left with nothing, because mullvad doesn’t keep any information. there was also a post in their website explaining everything.
          proton has been asked to give a user’s ip and they gave it, and also removed their “we don’t log your ip” text in their website (stuff aboht proton is all according to what i found searching about it, and i haven’t fact-checked)

          mullvad also doesn’t need any email, phone number, name, or anything like that. they just use a login and password, and it can be payed completely anonymously, with things such as monero.

          and finally, mullvad doesn’t have a free plan, while proton does. and if there is a free plan, there is something giving them money to run that free plan. since most free plans of anything create money through data collection, there is no way i’m gonna trust that.