[2banana]

Delete chrome. Get Brave.

Delete Gmail. Get protonmail.

Get a paid VPN.

[devane617]

If it works for you then great, but the VAST majority of people have no clue what you just said. And, I like using mainstream products so for me it comes down to me being in control of my metadata.

[Carriage Hill]

I don’t think we can now ever get away from Google, no matter what we do or try. It’s everywhere.

[steel_resolve]

Exactly. Working at this moment on migrating emails from google to protonmail

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

#4 Bears repeating.

Brave
Protonmail
Paid (”no logging”!) VPN (set to “always on.”)

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Also: Search Engine set to DuckDuckGo.

(Ignore the conspiracy maroons who say “DDG is in bed with goo*le!” It disinformation. DDG is super private and safe)

[palmer]

Brace phones home a lot. I had to block about 5 or 6 IP addresses in the firewall to stop it but it is undoubtedly still connecting out to its own servers.

There is a VPN in every browser: HTTPS. You should see a padlock to the left of freerepublic.com The only extra thing a VPN does is prevent your ISP from knowing which sites you visit. That's not worth $7 a month.