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Originally Posted by john70t

I use:
-NoScript (blocks automatic running of possibly bad elements) and
-PrivacyBadger (blocks same with cookies) in Waterfox.
-Also Bleachbit occasionally to do a full clean.

Look at your Task Manager and see what is running CNTRL+ALT+DEL.
-Process Explorer from GitHub does the same with more detail and is free.

Facebook has been caught a few times using hidden permanent tracking cookies for users not even on their website. That should have been a federal offensive and too common these days. AKA cyber-stalking. Not enough stink has been made IMO.

Microsoft Edge elements, GlobalAccounts, Widget, etc etc still runs and collects info despite being uninstalled/suspended/disabled to the fullest extent possible. That's another one.

I understand per-session cookies are needed to keep your place on the site and especially for financial transactions. Delete them afterwards.

I almost never use the browser made by the OS manufacturer (MSIE or Edge or Apple Safari).

I use Firefox with NoScript and uBlock Origins addons for Firefox. A word of warning, there are times when some security measures will make some (few/occasional) sites inoperable. For instance, I can login to the UPS website and see packages that are coming to me, but sometimes for whatever reason a package doesn't show up in the list, so I have to track it. I am unable to track a package by tracking number in FF, I believe because of NoScript. It's not Pi-Hole because I can use Chrome to track via UPS. I believe the UPS site has some transient site that runs a script for a split second so it never shows up in the list of sites to allow. I haven't dug to try to fix it since I so rarely need to track that way and can use Chrome. It's possible that I can put in some sort of generic UPS in a whitelist in NoScript that would fix the issue.

I also use Pi-hole as a DNS filter for crap.