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  • Disclaimer: I am no expert by any means.

    With that being said, as others have said, a DNS is like a phone book. By using PiHole with it going to a privacy respecting DNS service, you in theory eliminate being tracked by a DNS provider, but you do nothing to prevent your isp from tracking which ip addresses you access, and you do nothing to prevent search engines tracking which results you click on, you do nothing to prevent your web browser from tracking your browsing (especially on Chrome and Edge).

    In summary:

    DNS lookups: yes

    ISP with IP addresses: no you would need a GOOD VPN or TOR and either one properly configured

    Web browser: no, you need at least Firefox with data collection turned off, preferably with something like ublock installed.

    Search engine: no, requires more research but supposedly duckduckgo and eccosia are privacy respecting *citation required




  • It’s possible, but I don’t know for sure. I refuse to run Chrome because we don’t need another browser monopoly to stifle innovation.

    The Internet Explorer era was terrible, and we STILL have broken things that only support a now dead browser. So many things went all in on proprietary Microsoft standards for Internet Explorer, and now you cannot use them. Most older camera DVRs and stand alone ip cameras fall into that category.

    Another example: I can’t say which company, but a very large company you’ve almost definitely heard of, required that all of their vendors buy all raw material from their subsidiary, but you had to use a site that not only was Internet Explorer only, but an extremely out of date Internet Explorer only. basically you had to have an xp machine up to a couple years after xp was no longer supported, to order several thousands of dollars of raw material.

    All it would take for this to happen again is for Google to release a new API or “feature” that legally or technically a browser like Firefox cannot implement. Then if they decide they don’t like that standard or Google actually miraculously gets broken up for being a monopoly/anti competitive everything that uses it will again no longer be usable.