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In my opinion Containers are the best thing in Firefox. I'm sacrificing battery life just so I can use them on my Mac.

I finally feel free to search for whatever I want and not have second thoughts.

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> I finally feel free to search for whatever I want and not have second thoughts.

Doesn't Google also link sessions through IP Address? That combined with "how you usually browse" + interests is a very powerful deanonymization tool.

You may be very right.

I haven't encountered any targeting related to search terms yet, but I'm sure they have the capability.

I do need to make the leap to DuckDuckGo at some point!

I did both at the same time. Containers were the easier of the switches, because while DDG does an admirable job, it's not Google level quality for searches, and it can't be while still providing privacy. 80% of the time it's fine, the rest is acclimating yourself to g! and reminding yourself it exists.

Making the leap to DDG was way easier than I thought and I am really pissed now that I didn't do it months ago. As other have said, you can generally find anything you want and, if not, you always have !g. However, I now have an intuition as to what sort of searches might yield good results. Either way, I encourage everyone to do it. Just change your search engine to DDG in your browser and, after a couple of searches, you will forget it's not Google.

If they do, then you can turn it off through My Account -> Google Search personalization -> Signed out search activity.

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