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- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -10/+33if you are that paranoid about google or the rest of the internet then you might as well remove all networking devices and cancel your account with your ISP and use your computer strictly for offline purpposes...
- pope7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26and then burn your computer to the ground and only use linux thumb-drives on other peoples computers. You should probably hide the drive in your anus, too.
- Giever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14You could also use the "Customize Google" extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/743/
Check "Anonymize the Google cookie UID" under the Privacy Tab. - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@tokachu: because of the nature of the Tor network, it's totally anonymous
- aaarg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@TenebrousX
i use tor and have used it for quite a while now and it is awesome, but what you said is not exactly correct (at least to my understanding.) the exit node in tor can if they chose to do so log what is going on....not to mention you need to use privoxy to help tor become anonymous because of dns leaks.
that being said, tor is awesome and anyone concerned with privacy should check into it.
shameless advertisement :)
http://tor.eff.org/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If you use gmail, this will not work. Each time you are given a random cookie, after you login into gmail, that cookie is associated with your login.
- zeldafan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9http://www.duggmirror.com/programming/Defeating_Google_s_Perpetual_Search_Logging/
Very simple, too bad the mirror died. - winterlungs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Like... AOL? Who do you trust with your searches more than the G?
- Phantom784, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7not everyone has stupid neighbors...
- Kranklin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Uhm with a GMail account, google logging my searches is the least of my worries. Just think of all you email that is being "Logged"/stored on hotmail and etc.
- Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -24/+29Dear User,
We understand that you are looking for a way to:
1) Delete your saved searches
2) Break any ties of you having received a certain email, even after you've deleted it (ie, clearing our databases)
3) Remove any identifying information about your IP and user IDs in event of a subpeona which we routinely handle with the government
We do not provide that functionality at this time. It is not Google policy to remove information that helps us "better serve our customers". By "customers", we are referring to other individuals like you, who we assume don't have the same concerns as you.
We understand that you are concerned about your privacy, but we are Google, and one time, we stood up to the government which wanted this information about you. You can live safely knowing that since we are the only one who has ever done it, we are the only ones that care about your privacy.
A friendly reminder: If you blog negatively about this specific topic, you will be accused of click-fraud on your next billing cycle. Thank you and have a great day.
Signed,
The Google Team - yoshu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Seems excesive, why not just use http://scroogle.org ?
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Don't search for things you're ashamed of?
You sir are an idiot. "What's the point of having an internet connection if your not using it to look up weird ***** up pictures of dirty sex you'd never have yourself?" - geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5For me, privacy means a lot especially given corporate espionage. How am I to trust google or anyone else for that matter with say my email when I compete against them? Or maybe they'll venture into my space and compete against me? For such people, erring on the side of paranoia is probably best.
- ionut, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10A better solution that doesn't require Firefox, extensions or additional software and it's provided by Google:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/plain-old-google-search.html - jotux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I like google storing my search history. There have been many instances where I was looking for something I knew I had found before, and only remembered the terms I used to find it. I can log into my google account and rummage through my history and find it again, useful.
If I go looking for something that I don't want anyone to know about(not often, I guess some people might worry about that a lot) then I can just use another search engine...there are other search engines, you know. Just go to google and search for "search engines" ;-) - rocketrye12, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Great! Now an anonymous proxy run out of sweden will know my search requests, and not an established "do no evil" will-not-release company! Brilliant.
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8completely agree with you. people are making a big deal out of this and for no reason.
personally, I delete google's search history every once in a while, but you still have to let go of the whole "they're out to get me" mindset - EverAB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2people are simply scared that they know that you're looking for "Looney Tunes Porn"
- PSPDS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3wow. of all the things i have searched and dont want other people to know google may be one of the noisyist people in my business.
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The problem with that is you clear your search preferences at the same time, so you would have to reconfigure them each session. Very inconvenient.
- jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Customize Google" has a ton of good features. It is smart and very easy to use too. The thing that happened with AOL couldn't happen with Google because of how they aggregate data.
- nezek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21. You cant have search filter OFF
2. You cant save the language you prefer on google. Personally, I prefer google to be in english though its not the default setting for me since I'm not from the UK/US - wambamsam22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, but some do.
- mike503, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4god damnit people.
it's called CLEARING YOUR COOKIES.
that "defeats" this "perpetual" ability to record your searches. it's simple.
no need to run through anonymous proxies or anything. a cookie is the only persistent way to track you across browser sessions. learn about them and their restrictions and stop pushing this conspiracy theory. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't see anything on that page that says Google won't be logging the searches made. All it says is Google won't log your actions in a cookie.
It doesn't say they won't check for the existance of the cookie and then log your actions serverside, which is where they log that stuff anyway. - leopardhunter, on 02/18/2009, -0/+2Why not acquire a Google cookie and then "poison" it by swapping it with Google cookies from random other people? Some kind of anonymous exchange could be set up. You use Google as normal, and every so often you start using a different random cookie on the net. The cookie you were formerly using now gets used by someone else. Eventually Google's privacy-killer database is effectively garbage.
Of course, this wouldn't work for people who log in to Google, like Gmail users.
User "frankenfag" suggested GoogleAnon, a bookmarklet that zeroes out the GUID in the cookie. That's also a good approach, but not comprehensive enough for my taste. - MacGeekGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not sure why this guy is getting dugg down. That's great advice... if you don't like the search company's policies, use another one. Vote with your feet... or in this case your clicks.
- frankenfag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2GoogleAnon http://www.imilly.com/google-cookie.htm
- duck1123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a well established fact that Google has way more hard drives than they know what to do with. If you add up every search I've ever performed, the date/time, the links I've clicked, my IP address, User Agent info, and just about anything else since Google came out, it can't take up much more than a GB. A drop in the bucket to Google. I see no reason why a company that made it's make by caching the internet and buying the archive of the newsgroups couldn't spare a measly GB for me. (plus the 2.8 GB for my mail)
- ionut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually that page had a different purpose (search for pages on Google.com). Look at the source code: there's no JavaScript, except for the code required by the search box. No cookie tracking, no user accounts, no redirecting for the URLs, no ads.
A similar page (that has a different ranking order) can be found at Google Accessible Search:
http://labs.google.com/accessible/ - Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Somehow I managed to use Google since it first appeared without Search Preferences. *Lots* of heavy subject searching, tens of thousands.
Cookies are not required to do searches. What else does Google do that's so great? - briyan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who cares? I have nothing to hide.
- usernameistaken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why not just block cookies from google?
- grimholtz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Dugg. Thanks for the tip -- especially http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org
- tokachu, on 10/12/2007, -16/+17What's keeping proxy and Tor server owners from looking at your search queries? Doesn't this make it LESS secure and MORE privacy-invasive than just going straight through Google?
Flagged as “inaccurate.” - yathosho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just use ixquick.. http://digg.com/security/New_search_engine_eliminates_Big_Brother
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4if you're concerned about your privacy on the web, use your neighbor wifi
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3How about if you search for "Death Star plans" and you get a visit from the FBI because they think you're a terrorist?
My point is, depending on the political climate, these things can be used against you.
Two examples this week:
Guy is arrested for Photoshopping pics to make the women look like underage teens.
Two Pakistanis are arrested for buying a bunch of cell phones they were going to resell for $$$. - Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, yeah! And while you're at it, don't search for politically sensitive information! Don't search for information to help you understand what's really going on! What, you don't trust what they tell you to think?
In fact, only search for "Disney" and "Hello, kitty", and you're golden! - lostcny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hmm now if people only stopped using google search for stuff like hacking PC's and stupid porn then maybe they wouldn't have to worry, or better yet next time you wanna build a bomb, don't search on google to get the instructions! derp! ;) dumb asses
- SweeterThnEqual, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think it's a bit conceited of everyone to think that Google would even care what they're searching for. Unless you're some sort of threat, and you've searched for something so volatile that they could actually use it against you (really, no one would care to see a guy was looking at porn), you're probably not that important to them. Just saying...
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nope.
- wstrinz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea stickin it to google, way to fight the man, man.
Also, try
1.clearing your cookies
2.using a proxy website
3.using a different search engine
4.a google offshoot (scroogle for example)
edit: oh, hah, yeah what yoshu said. - Himself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*cough* *cough* scroogle.org *cough* *cough*
- retsambew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Seems a bit paranoid to me.
- CarzorStelatis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1'How to set up any decent web browser'. Er... or you could just download the CustomizeGoogle extension for Firefox, Flock, Mozilla, and IE (yes, an IE conversion was recently released), which anonymises the Google Cookie UID.
- 662662, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Check out:
ttp://digg.com/security/Anonymous_Browsing_Tutorial
for simplified solution :D - Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Being careful with sites like Google does not equate to "paranoia" or "the rest of the internet." Nice straw dog.
Being careful makes sense on the net. Always has, always will. Ask the people who USED to joke about identity theft. Ask the RIAA victims, ask the NSA victims (oh wait, they don't know they're victims). - rschnz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can disable storing search history at Google in preferences.
And if you're not logged don't worry! -
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