Brucehankins Anonymity online is a lure. A good practice is to consider that everything you post on the net is public. This being said, it is not hard to configure some mitigations. Blocking ads, tracking and 3rd party cookies, running social networks in containered tabs, not using facebook/google/etc. account to login everywhere, isn't hard to do.
You can go one step forward and block refferers, CDN, etc... replace yous ISP DNS but DNS that don't keep logs and possibly implement DNSSec, use a VPN, etc... Up to you to decide up to where you'd like to go.

By the way this isn't very different from the real world... Nowadays most payments are electronics, people have loyalty cards, you can't book annonymous flight tickets, CCTV systems operate in many places, radars on the roads, etc.

    Brucehankins the companies mentioned live from targeted advertising, the more you tell about yourself, the better the advertising for each individual, therefore, tell about yourself as little as possible, always think about what I'm going to put on the www---- I don't need Edge my FF serves me well

      WetGeek ...there's very little chance that the CCP is interested in my browsing data... You'd be surprised.

        jppelt I gave up on Waterfox when the developer was hired by a company to continue to develop the browser. I believe the company that hired him was an ad company. Ad companies and web browsers...not a good combination from a privacy perspective.

          Harvey Interesting...I downloaded the browser for my Debian installs from the Opera site, which is located in Norway. I assumed that the browser was now under the Opera company, not the Chinese company.

          Edit: Well, now I know. According to a Wikipedia entry, most of the company is Chinese owned. Oh well, it was nice while it lasted. Like WetGeek, I'm removing it from all of my devices.

            Solarmass ...twice he says "but it's not vivaldi" thus not recommending it. But at least he wasn't obscuring his bias. And he was thorough. What I like about it is the warts and all honesty more or less. My favorite of a few memorable sentences was "Unsurprisingly the default search engine provided by Edge is Bing. "🙂 I didn't love it and I didn't hate it is the sum--but at least that reviewer dug somewhat deep and listed a lot of positives.

            @JoshStrobl? my American word "favorite" gets underlined now! This is brand new! I love it. My spell check prefers "favourite." Is this a consequence of the Flarum thing today, or just a coincidental thing with Firefox and language packs on the same day? No complaint, it's awesome it sees me an ocean away, like I'm on 'holiday'🙂

                brent ...twice he says "but it's not vivaldi" thus not recommending it.

                Well, he is from Vivaldi team

                    brent
                    It is a result of learning English, welcome to the rest of the world. 😛

                    Now if only you could learn to use the metric system and use dd/mm/yyyy

                        I'm all-in with Vivaldi now. I have two windows with different tabs on my mini desktop and I can sync (one or both windows and specific tab(s) from each window) while on my laptop - nice little feature. The sync capes are really smooth. I love the stacked tabs and the notes. Features I never used on Firefox I know find indispensable on Vivaldi. So far, super smooth and fast. I was having fun tiling news sites to compare coverage and I added Twitter on my side bar for any time access. It's like Solus, the more I use it, the more comfortable and settled in I get, the happier I am. Solus and Vivaldi...a real nice combo!

                          Solarmass I looked for it for iOS...could not find it. Hopefully soon although I use DuckDuck go for my iPhone.

                              Harvey Thanks--I get the flavour of your message, and harbour no preconceptions to a vocabulary of this calibre whilst enjoying your candour, mate (mate's not aussie is it?), if I may verbalise that is. The 2 November thing and millimetres I am mum on at the moment🤔

                                Solarmass Actually want to get rid of my iPhone and get a Pine Phone but too integrated w/ the family...although I might be able to at the next upgrade cycle...fingers crossed.

                                  5 months later

                                  Has anyone installed Ms Edge on Solus yet? It's very cool and fast, have web pages read out to you in different languages and voices and handy extensions. You don't need an .eopkg file, just download the latest .deb version and open it with the extractor. Copy the folder "msedge-dev" to somewhere on your home directory. Make a link to %home%/msedge-dev/msedge and you're done. Have fun :-)

                                    xarai001 I've been using Edge on Windows, Android and iOS for many months, and on Solus for several weeks. The Dev version for Linux is the same version as the Windows 10 Dev version, but a few features available for Windows are not yet available for Linux.

                                    I like Edge a lot, and I am considering making it my default across all the platforms when a stable version is released for Linux.

                                    Rather than attempting to "roll-my-own" and taking on the task of maintaining the package as a new Dev version is released each week, I installed Edge using a Flatpak version that will go into the Flatpak stable repository with the Stable version of Edge for Linux is released.

                                    If you want to install the Flatpak:

                                    (1) Check to see that Flatpak is installed (it should be, unless you removed it).

                                    (2) Install the Flathub BETA repository via the terminal, using these commands:
                                    flatpak remote-add flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
                                    flatpak install flathub-beta org.godotengine.Godot

                                    (3) Install Microsoft Edge via the terminal, using this command:
                                    flatpak install com.microsoft.Edge

                                    To stay current, the Flatpak version needs to be updated weekly using the terminal command:
                                    flatpak update

                                    When the stable version of Edge is released, it will update monthly.

                                    Prior to installing Edge on Solus using the Flatpak, I tested Edge on a Ubuntu 20.10 computer dedicated for testing Edge. I have not noticed any performance degradation using the Flatpak on Solus.

                                    Disclaimers: I am not associated with or contributing to the Flatpak project. I have been an active participant in the Microsoft Edge Insider program since April 2019.