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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're right, you're not going to achieve complete anonymity if you're interacting with Google services in any way, but you can reduce the amount of information that they receive.

its not even about complete anonymity. google has zero business in when I'm logging into my utilities company account, or other semi-governmental portals!

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it literally is their business; they make millions of dollars off of it.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

then that's a problem we must solve. Because an adtech company should definitely not have any business in that.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it has been solved for approximately 2 billion people on this planet, but those answers are not friendly to profit-seeking institutions like google and the only remaining institutions that can stop it are captured by the likes of google

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

for the record, I don't believe logging in with wechat is any better, and recaptcha is present on the utilities websites of my european country leaning towards china.