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Asking For A Friend: "Can't we just use VPNs to stop services from tracking us?" (lemmy.world)
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[–] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago

Nope. Most tracking is not happening based on an IP address, which VPN promise to hide. But rather tracking what websites are you visiting (that run a common tracking code and sending those data to google and similat) and yhen linkingball of that to your identity on websites you are logged in...