If I view a site via archive.ph, do I avoid the cookies and trackers?

An ad for a VPN, disguised as a news article. Good work.

Please explain how a VPN avoids trackers, cookies, and browser fingerprinting, as the adicle seems to suggest? Particularly if you have a dynamic IP, like most people?

We need a certified (3rd party) seal on websites that do not track... (of course tested and verified by a 3rd party)

Everything tracks you. Just don't be a pedophile or drug addict or pirate and you'll be fine. Sorry but that's just the way it is now. You have no privacy. Be a decent law abiding person or get caught.

What kind of mental gymnastics you have to do to type "You have no privacy" without having any problem with that?

Do you really value yourself so little?

I have nothing to hide so I'm okay with it.

You do know that laws change?

They don't. VPN providers managed to get a widespread reputation for great security. It's all bullshit. Yes, they shield your traffic from your internet provider but, instead, you send all your traffic through one entity that you have no control over, possibly registered in a different country where you have zero legal reach. Whereas your local internet provider is bound by so many laws that also protect you. (This in turn means that VPN is a godsend in autocratic countries!).

I am starting to close YouTube videos with a VPN sponsor section and letting the tubers know what bullshit they are advertising.

Ah yes, the one argument against privacy. I'm convinced now. Where can I hand over my private data to you?

Hey, can you send me your home adress, phone number, and a picture of yourself?

No reason really, but you dont have anything to hide right?

Article could have mentioned that "there are actually 15 trackers on this page, according to Privacy Badger." Because there are.

But last time I went to the NY Post there were over a hundred.

Well in that case, may I have your name, address, social security number, bank account and routing number, and insist that you never close the door to the bathroom or your bedroom ever again?

VPN let's my MIL watch BBC... worth every dollar just for that.

as u/chris-tier indicated absolutely right, they can ONLY prevent tracking at the IP-address level, all other forms of tracking still work perfectly.

this is why i like using DNS blocks like pie-holes (or i use a fortigate FWF-61E) router that blocks DNS and web-filtering so i have no ads, and all of the trackers literally do not load.

To further illustrate just how (not really) useful VPNs are for stopping ads or trackers.

I am using a VPN right now to connect to Reddit from China and to give you an example, whenever I google "movie theaters near me". They always give me the list of the ones closest to me. Like a fairly accurate result yea? I am talking about anywhere between 5-20 minutes of driving.

This is me connecting from a country that has blocked google and google has vowed not to operate in, yet they still get my address right. Take it from me when I say VPNs do the bare minimum. There are many ways to track you online.

Developers should advocate for privacy focussed analytics like Plausible, etc. and just stick to that single one. Even better, have a backend only analytics option.

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How much do you think a dynamic IP matters? And how often do you think yours changes? Sure some peoples change many times a day but most home internet connections around here only grab a new one from every few weeks to when you actually reboot the modem to pretty much never(as long as I've lived in my current place I've never gotten a new one despite being "dynamic").

But really it's the other trackers you have to worry about anyway. You can switch IP's every 5 minutes and it won't mean a think if you've got other trackers updating them on who you are. It'd be like swapping your car to evade the cops but keeping your plates.

Doesn't using firefox do the same thing but universally?

> You can switch IP's every 5 minutes and it won't mean a think if you've got other trackers updating them on who you are.

Exactly. The only thing a VPN offers in terms of trackers is that you won't be tracked by your IP. If you don't want that, instead of paying for a VPN, most people can just change their IP once in a while and get the same effect.

There are other reasons why a VPN can be useful, like with avoiding geographic restrictions, stopping your ISP from recording your browsing history (e.g. in the US) or in some countries torrenting, etc. But avoiding trackers is not one of them, unless maybe you do use tracker blockers but have a static IP.

This ad-disguised-as-news implying that a VPN is a good way to protect from trackers on websites, complete with affiliate links to NordVPN, is complete bullshit. I thought TechRadar was better than that, apparently I was mistaken.

I'm Italian and most big Italian YouTubers are on the payroll of Nord VPN. It's absurd how widespread they became, persuading people into thinking that it's almost like a fundamental thing to have on your computer for security reasons

Google will use search history to track location. Delete google's history in your browser (and don't be logged in) and it is likely to give a result that matches the vpn ip location.