Send an email encrypted with PGP to your intended recipient (using their public key of course)

Anonymous email is possible and most places accepting anonymous tips/whistleblowing have an email address for that specifically

Alternatively I’m sure these same places can make an anonymous IM account like simpleX chat for example

There’s plenty of ways really…

I don’t fully agree with you. It’s certainly no major coverup but it’s a heap of evidence that goes against this shiny veneer google maintains with the public

Google pretends they are champions of user privacy and protection to maintain trust and enable data collection on an unprecedented scale

When this article shows they are actually leaking private info left right and center, have the most nonchalant attitude towards respecting and maintaining our privacy and evidently ‘keeping private info safe’ (or should I say ‘not being evil’) is at the bottom of their priority list

Then check out the reply by Zak in this thread

There are many many ways your being tracked by the apps and service you use

Unfortunately, a vpn is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s a great first step but if you wanted to prevent your exact situation, I think only a phone running graphene OS would protect you in this instance since it isolates play services, among other privacy protecting features

On your phone? Or desktop?

I would love to hear about an alternative for Canada as well. By my own research, there are none, but I would like to be wrong

My experience with my two banks has been, with their respective apps, I can sign in with just a password but I get logged out of the app after 10 minutes of inactivity. I never stay signed in. This is two different apps for 2 different banks.

On the web, they almost always request their crappy 2FA which is via text or email, and I do not stay signed in ever either, as well as being logged out after 10 minutes of activity.

What irks me is their 2FA, they have no other options besides email or text, the least secure options of all 2FA methods…

But being signed out everytime, I’m not sure I see it as that much of a hassle, and I kind of appreciate that if someone can unlock my computer or phone, they cannot open my bank account just because I was logged in 30 minutes ago…

Thank you, someone who actually read the study not just the title!

Median data transfer to third parties is 9 per website. Those third parties? Mostly advertisers and marketers, most commonly google.

The disclosed purpose of collecting that data and transmitting to other companies? They literally tell you it’s for marketing and advertising in their privacy policy.