• vortic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I suppose that what I mean is that I’d be willing to pay Google $15/month to not track me in any way if they could figure out a way to convince me that they truly are not tracking me. I would need some real assurances, though, not just “we’re not tracking you, we promise!” I have no idea how they can provide that kind of assurance, though.

    I’m not a google shill. I’m just someone who is trying to have a conversation about this. It seems that, right now, the only way to be mostly sure that you’re not being tracked is to use self-hosted services and, even then, you’d need to examine the source code or trust the FOSS community to keep tabs on things.

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      1 year ago

      True, and even while self-hosting I guess you would probably be tracked in some way as much as anybody can, by the host or by your ISP if real-self-host.

      Or by gov if you escape them all