My Chrome browser has an option to open in "incognito" mode. They can't track you. Supposedly.

Hi , I do my browsing on an iPad.

I try to stay away from anything associated with Google...the world's greatest collector of private data.

QUOTE: " Google is owned by Alphabet and owns both Google Search and Google Chrome "

It‘s a nightmare, I deactivated my Facebook music site due to the new EU data protection regulation. Too risky to be sued or pay penalty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Crossover...I don't use Facebook...I'm not familiar with it. Is this new "cookie" system so venomous you had to unplug.

Is the new "cookie" regulations better or worse than the system we're still using. Is there anything we need to know about working with this new "cookie coding?"

I'm running XP Pro and Windows 10 computers. I can easily go into my "cookie" folders and erase them every day, but it's not that easy on Windows 10. My list of Windows 10 cookies is somewhere around 300-400 now. They appear faster than I can erase them.

Oh yes, and I put a block on Google and still their cookies show up!

While google requires the data you input for their money making models..

They also share all software they develop with the open source community.. (except those money making models)

They are not that bad, as they will not share the data they get...

But they are a problem, as they are way to domminant in internet advertising...

Nothing has changed in technical respect. What has changed is that every website owner is now responsible for strict data protection according to the new EU regulations. As I have no idea what kind of tracking the website hosting service and Google and Facebook are really using it‘s not easy to list up everything that‘s done with the data in the detailed data protection declaration you are obliged to add to your website. It‘s legally impossible to do it correctly in case of a Facebook site as we don‘t even know in detail what Facebook is doing with the data, but courts have ruled that the user who operates the Facebook fanpage is responsible for it. Lawyers say you risk penalty when you run a fanpage.
EU data regulations are very impractical; theoretically you even have to sign a data agreement as soon as you exchange your phone number or business card.