Republicans allow isp to harvest and sell data about your web usage.

[Michael Murphy]

It's time to start looking at moving to a vpn service to keep my isp from selling information about web sites I go to, actually and info they gather email address, where I bank, it's all up for grabs, republicans just made FCC restrictions on privacy illegal.  Wait to you see the spam you'll start getting now.  Do these people have no soul put the freedom of the internet like a fish.  Seriously what you can do to get a modicum of privacy is purchase a vpn service so your isp can't see your traffic cause it's encrypted.

[Charlie B53]

How well do the apps work that supposedly 'block' tracking?

Many people are going to be seriously P.O.'d when they learn this is happening.  We like to think we keep a pretty low profile.  This may also be a contributing reason why many of us refuse to use the 'Cloud'.

This could actually cause an increase in the use of 'snail mail'.

Qwap, I'll have to order 'checks' from my Banks.  I haven't written one in YEARS.  Rarely ever even touch a pen. Carry a checkbook?   I don't even know where it is!

[Michael Murphy]

The solution is a vpn service, the way it works is before you do anthing is you establish a link to the vpn(Virtual Private Network) when you establish the link and sign in all you activities are encryted and sent up to the vpn server at this point it's encrypted so the isp can't read it.  The vpn server then sends you data to the correct service, google,amazon, etc. since it originates from the vpn server it's not traceable to you.  Responses are encrypted and sent to you where the vpn on your system decrypts the data so your isp never sees your data.  Adds a small latency but effectively blocks the isp from seeing your data the only thing they can see is what vpn service you are using.

[kickingandscreaming]

I just found this new privacy-based browser:  https://cliqz.com/en/

Looks interesting.  But in the meantime, you can skip searching with Google and use either
https://www.startpage.com/eng/  or https://duckduckgo.com/  for private searching.

[Simon Dog]

I have heard  good things about http://nordvpn.com

.  But in the meantime, you can skip searching with Google and use either
https://www.startpage.com/eng/  or https://duckduckgo.com/  for private searching.

You can install the TOR browser our (https://www.torproject.org/) and browse anonymously, although TOR has become a target of the three letter boys so it may be compromised.   What I find it useful for is news sites that give only a few articles before the paywall goes up, and uses the IP address for blocking.  The downside is that routing your traffic through 3 servers, often on different continents, increases latency to a noticeable extent.

[iolaire]

A VPN Alone Won't Fix Congress Selling Your Privacy Down River
https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/A-VPN-Alone-Wont-Fix-Congress-Selling-Your-Privacy-Down-River-139239

"Traffic from VPNs doesn’t simply disappear: it merely resurfaces in another ISP that can subsequently monitor user activity," noted Princeton computer Scientist Nick Feamster in a recent report on ISP tracking. "The opportunities for observing user traffic are substantial. For example, in a recent simple experiment that postdoc Philipp Winter performed, web requests from Tor exit relays to the Alexa top 1,000 websites traversed more than 350 Internet service providers considering the DNS lookups from these exit relays, the traffic from these exit nodes traverses an additional 173 Internet service providers."

[Shaks24]

There is a free browser called Opera that has a built in VPN that can be activated if anyone is interested. I think it has other features to protect privacy too.

[Michael Murphy]

I guess I should have added that you need to select a vpn service that connects through a direct internet connection that by passesa isp