I’m really curious if you log in with VPN, does Google stop getting your data, or does it get recorded as like a different user from another country ?
Honestly man, if you’re concerned with privacy, don’t use Google products.
But to answer your question. No. It’ll just spoof your location really
does Google stop getting your data
No, Google always gets your data. There are plenty of other browsers which you could use instead of Google Chrome.
Oh also, I’m always connected with my mobile phone’s internet, don’t know if that would matter somehow
Google uses multiple tools to track you: plenty of “free” services (gmail, google drive, google analytics,… ), if you are logged with one of them, vpn or no vpn, they will have a good idea of what you do. The ip will be different but that’s all.
Chrome being one of these free tools, they can in theory track you all the time if they decide so. Not sure if they actually do it or not but it would be technically possible. Same thing if you use an android phone.
You would need to not use your existing google accounts, or any accounts that google already may have tied to your internal id in their databases.
If you’re logged into gmail, then turn on your vpn, Google now knows your account has used this specific VPN service.
Open sourced browser would be better, if for some reason you can’t see yourself parting ways with the Chrome interface then you can switch to Chromium and be better off. Chromium allows you to disable much of the data collection and etc. However even Chromium is subjected to Google’s privacy policy if you download certain addons. Also you need a special addon to just disable WebRTC, which is crucial. The best is Firefox. For one they’ve been providing privacy browsers longer then just about anyone. But also they make it easy to turn on tracking protection, turn off data collection, and you can also disable WebRTC, Flash, geo location, fingerprinting, and telemetry all relatively easy from their browser’s configs. All these things needs to be disabled for a VPN to really efficiently protect you.
Google will get your VPN new data not your original data.
But I enjoy the ease of use with syncing my phone tablet and PC. I’m just starting to use adblockers,vpn, TOR browser and Tails(soon hopefully)
So more I learn I guess I will need to replace Google Chrome as well.
Now I need my privacy only when needed times. So my setup is VPN+Tor Browser
In fact, Google will know that you’ve used the VPN server’s IP address and it would be logged on your Google accounts.
Yeah makes a lot of sense, but now I’m creeped a bit more. So changing my IP address wouldn’t change much, if government wants my ID, they would simply take it from Google if needed
So would turning on my VPN first then logging into gmail change things ?
Well I mostly need privacy for browsing dark web, and while I’m browsing with Tor, I also have Chrome on background working with reddit and stuff. I’m wondering how it effects
I have FF’s Tor browser which i love to use.
But for my regular surfing im wondering how secure/private im with google chrome + privacy badger + adblocker + VPN
I just started using MacBook and i think FF has some problems in X OS
There’s always Firefox. Similar features and performance to Chrome (if not better), and Mozilla is a lot more privacy focused.
Uhmm that’s something important that I’ve never thought actually! So they are probably smart enough that my IP has changed to my VPN Server’s , so they would be keeping my old IP as my location… ?
If you did this every time you ever logged into the account (and have never logged into the google account without the VPN up to the present), and never logged into Chrome, and keep your cookies and cache completely separate between your VPN and non-VPN sessions.
It’s better to just use a fresh browser exclusively while you’re connected if you’re really worried about privacy.
It depends, I’ve never used Chrome before, at all. Go to preferences and see if there’s a section for turning off data collection. You also need to disable WebRTC, this could leak your real IP even if your VPN is enabled.
It also does nothing for privacy by default, just like Firefox,
No browser does except Tor, lol. The reason for this is quite simple, no everyone wants privacy. Some people just want convenience. However Firefox makes it easy to disable all that stuff in the configs, can’t really say the same about Chrome because I’ve never used it. Plus Mozilla is far less shady then Google. Using Google is pretty irrelevant if you haven’t turned off the various tracking elements of your browser. It’s pretty easy to switch the default search engine to DuckDuckGo in the preferences.
Google maps still knows were you are, what’s stopping other websites from knowing where you are ?
How do you manage that?Do you open VPN and open another tab+browser and start browsing there the geosrestricted sites you want to visit?The sites you are visiting dont see the cookies from the first browser?
Isnt your IP already leaked?So why to bother?
I dont know i am asking because i am confused how the vpn on/off and cookies work