Yesterday I noticed that I suddenly get personalised ads from Youtube altough I use Ccleaner and have a VPN.
At first i contacted my VPN supplier as I thought it was strange, because a VPN should make your details invisable.
The problem however lies deeper. Normally when I close my browser it erases my internethistory because i use smartclean in Ccleaner, but it doesn't work anymore.
I sincerely hate Google and try to avoid using it as much as possible. My search engine is Duckduck go, everything from google is uninstalled on my devices as much as possible, my internetbrowser is Microsoft edge but you can't avoid using youtube if you want information or reviews.
So normally when I startup youtube i get the standard warning I have to agree that youtube is using cookies followed by the message that I should login, which I don't because I dont want to and I don't have a Google account.
However 2 days ago, i got a different screen. Normally it's a small rectangular box which you click away by clicking "I agree". this time I got a full screen message which at first glance has the same message but changes your settings for Google cookies without your consent. Using cookies is one thing, Changing your settings without you knowing is criminal because normally when I do a manual cleaning, i get 2 digits in trackers. Today I got 1935 trackers and diving deeper in my settings, Google and all connected companies were in my safelist something I would NEVER EVER do!!!
I erased everything but I also noted that I don't get a notification anymore stating my internetbrowser is cleaned altough I have Smart clean on and the settings are on "Automatically cleaning with notification" and my history and cookies aren't cleaned anymore. Cleaning manually again delivered 883 trackers by just opening youtube.
HELP!!!!