No, just lose Internet Explorer and use Google Chrome. No ads at all. you can even import your old bookmarks/favorites. The only bug is there’s no home button (by default), until you go into the settings and enable it.
Google collects far to much personal info. The owner gets greedier and greedier as competition for insurance underwriting using google instead of Experian is the desire. Many more are in this same game.
THX I just installed it. How do I install the old bookmarks. Chrome does not seem to have a lot of tools.
THX in advance
There are quite a number of situations in which Chrome sends data to Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/
Some features can be disabled: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html
The way I see it, unless I’m at a google website there should be no data going to google.
I use Pale Moon. It’s a less resource intensive fork of Firefox. Also, consider noscript or just manually enable/disable javascript as needed. I try to have it disabled unless absolutely necessary.
Also, instead of searching via Google, try ixquick or startpage.