Vpn does very little for protecting your privacy.Always use VPN and secure bowsers
.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/ I think I'm switching wed browser
I think you guys are being overly paranoid. I don't recall ever hearing about anyone being busted for zoo porn. People are occasionally arrested for the act, but not the porn. Law enforcement is looking for pedos and terrorists online, not us.
You can actually download all the data Google holds on you if you have an account and no surprise it's pretty invasive, obviously this only covers stuff while you're signed in on a PC or using an Android phone. But they record everything and anything, and looks like for the last 5 years.
You can do this my going to "Manage your Google Account" --> "Data & personalisation" --> "Download your data"
The folder named "My Activity" is the main one with search history, etc.
There are claims that DuckDuckGo is powered by google and it does show eof result which is a google page when you reach the last resultGoogle's (and other search engines) business model is based ENTIRELY on gathering and selling user data. I don't need to say more. Use DuckDuckGo.