Hello, I am wondering if there are browsers and search engines NOT tied to google or chrome so that each time I "search" anything it does not flood my FB page with ads and stuff..any suggestions ??

What search engine are you going to use? Because they're teaching you also.

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Originally posted by golddot:
Hello, I am wondering if there are browsers and search engines NOT tied to google or chrome so that each time I "search" anything it does not flood my FB page with ads and stuff..any suggestions ??

http://duckduckgo.com for search.

Firefox, Safari, or Opera as mainstream browsers. There are others showing up in "best browser" searches like Vivaldi. Never used it though.

Stop using FB. That's probably your issue. FB is like a damn virus on phones and browsers.

Within the past week Chrome has really been bogging down on my Android.
It's a Galaxy S6, pretty old, so I don't know if it's the phone or the browser. Have dumped cache and cleared browsing history, yet it persists.

Switching over to Dolphin for now.

thanks fellas, i will try the duck duck, i tried Firefox and the same thing happened, its like they are al l in cohots to sell me stuff LOL

You can browse in private mode.

i tried that comet, but it still creeps in, its weird, its like if i shop for coffee, all sudden 10k coffee ads come up, a little nerving

I just use an ad blocker and never see any ads. I also delete my cookies every time I close my browser and never sign in to Google when doing searches.

I've heard good things about the brave browser. Brave

Alternatively you could use firefox and install the extensions privacy badger (from EFF) and ublock origins.

Search engine wise, duckduckgo as other members have stated.

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Originally posted by MitchbSC:
http://duckduckgo.com for search.

Firefox, Safari, or Opera as mainstream browsers. There are others showing up in "best browser" searches like Vivaldi. Never used it though.

Stop using FB. That's probably your issue. FB is like a damn virus on phones and browsers.

^^^^^^ THIS

Sounds more like a problem with FB. I'm using google chrome but don't use FB so I have no problems.

+1 on Brave.

+1 on Facebook being the culprit.

Give www.ghostery.com a try some time. It's an add-on for Chrome, or as a stand-alone mobile browser.

Edge and IE of course

From Wiki:
"In 2016, Opera Software AS was sold to a Chinese consortium. The parent company, the similarly named Opera Software ASA, changed its name to Otello Corporation."

hmmmmm.....

Vivaldi is another new browser. Most are based on the same engine that's in Chrome, but with their own modifications to the gui, how they phone home, etc.

I'm using DuckDuckGo for a search engine, Firefox for most web browsing and Vivaldi in private mode for Facebook.

For Firefox and Vivaldi in normal mode I've advert blockers (uBlock Origin) and tracking blockers (Privacy Badger).

I see little-to-no adverts on FB reflective of my other browsing habits.

I use Safari on my mobile devices (iThings), but FB gets nothing there, either, because I use the FB app on those. (Which is relatively safe, because FB doesn't get the free reign on iOS it gets on Android.)

Firefox, on the desktop, at least, has profiles, you know. You can fire-up a separate profile for FB and that way FB can't see you've been with the browser under another profile. That's the theory, at least.

this,

and I run adblocker on chrome too

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Originally posted by Jelly:
Sounds more like a problem with FB. I'm using google chrome but don't use FB so I have no problems.

thanks fellas, DuckDuck seems to be doing the trick, i SWEAR i am gonna delete FB when i finally canget web service at my home..smh