This way most websites will still give us access even with blocking cookies! In Tor browser, this can be done by activating the NoScript Security Suite Add-On. Go to the settings, then block JavaScript. When browsing in our private browser, some arrogant websites (such as and globalnews.ca) refuse to give us access since we block their cookies or use specific browsers such as Tor browser! How do we fix this? There, we can clear selected site data and see all the cookies that have been stored! Blocking JavaScript In mobile, go to Settings > Site Settings > Data stored. In desktop, go to chrome://settings/content/all or Settings > Security and Privacy > Site Settings > View permissions and data stored across sites. Since we have blocked cookies in our other browser, we don't need to clear cookie data there.īut we can actually clear cookie data in Google Chrome! Should we use DuckDuckGo? Yes, yes we should.Īlso, DuckDuckGo has a handy feature called bangs! Clearing cookie data The Tor browser uses DuckDuckGo as its default search engines, signifying that DuckDuckGo is trusted. That's why we should set SafeSearch to strict! Searching in sets SafeSearch to strict by default! However, some inappropriate results may appear in DuckDuckGo. * DuckDuckGo has cookies, but they're not for tracking and probably are for remembering our settings in the search engine. I'll explain in the following table! Criteria

Extras Should we use AdBlock?ĭuckDuckGo is a search engine that doesn't track us. (I did my own experiment in early 2021, and blocking cookies make websites load more than twice faster!) Great!Ĭongratulations, we can browse privately now! 🥳🥳🥳Īs a bonus, I will give you more tips and tricks. This way we can browse truly privately!Īlso, blocking cookies literally make your internet browsing much faster. Obviously, we can just go to the settings tab in the browser, then block all cookies. You can also watch this video if you'd like to learn more! Blocking Cookies However, Google can still track us using cookies! Those browsers obviously don't belong to Google and they won't give any data to Google. Here's the pros and cons of each browser! You can pick whichever browser you like, but remember each comes with its pros and cons. Tor (The most secure and private browser I know of).Safari (However, according to my research, several sources say Safari doesn't care about our privacy!).Firefox (I personally use Firefox in desktop).The only way to stop Google from tracking us is to use another browser. So, how do we stop Google from tracking us? I am aware there are several settings in Google that can turn off tracking, but I seriously doubt that. If Google Chrome allows every cookie from every website, of course they'll also let themselves track you!) It's still not private! (This is true according to the many sources I visit and logic. Google Chrome sends data about whatever sites we visit to Google. That doesn't stop Google from tracking us. You can turn it off in the Settings > Cookies and other site data, but I don't recommend this. Thus, Google Chrome allows ALL cookies by default. Google Chrome is owned by (you won't guess it) GOOGLE! As I said earlier, Google gets tons of revenue from advertising.

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