AA> Well.. with a VPN in place, Google or Bing ought not be an  
AA> issue then, right?

Not always.  You never have one level of security.  Multiple layers.  Duck Duck
Go is bad because it was caught selling information to Microsoft and DDG's CEO
outright lied about doing that.  I'd use Startpage since they keep no traffic
logs nor user information.

Speaking of logs, almost all of the big VPN providers keep traffic logs and are
notorious for turning over logs to the US government (NordVPN, I'm looking at
you).  I use Private Internet Access that doesn't keep any logs at all about
what you do on the Internet.

No matter how careful you are, you leave a trail of information behind you on
the Internet.

I use a VPN mainly to keep some sort of sanity and privacy on the Internet
though it's not a lot.

-- Sean

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