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I haven't found a perfect solution to avoiding tracking, but I frequently look around for new ways to improve my privacy.

One interesting thing I have found was to use Firefox's container tabs with the Temporary Containers extension and a per-domain isolation configuration which will put keep Google search in an temporary isolated container but still let me use mail.google.com in a persistent container.

Combine this with 'Google search link fix' so that search result page no longer uses local stubs to track links followed. Configure Temporary Containers configuration for Google to always open links from there in a new temporary container.

Then use uBlock Origin to not load Google's analytics when you're on the remote page.

Hopefully this prevents Google from tracking search history, though it's possible they could use some IP and browser fingerprinting to establish a weaker correlation on a shadow profile.

I'd love to also have per-container proxy configuration which would use a random proxy per temporary container, but I guess that's not possible yet.

I haven't looked much into ways to randomize the browser data sent to server, but its also something I'd like to be able to do if it were automatic and random enough (eg, a per-request randomization of user-agent and reporting of things like fonts, plugins, screen resolution, etc, which are used as correlating factors in fingerprinting tools).



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