Google and Anti-Evil Insurance
Protect your privacy from Google.
This simple HOWTO will keep Google from logging your search history by routing all Google searches through a proxy.
Why is this necessary or desirable? Because Google has recently agreed to keep records of all searches by its users. Google is an awesome, powerful search engine; but should they decide to “turn evil,” and sell your data, they’d have all your searches saved by IP or Gmail username or both. The kinds of statistical data that could be analyzed here stagger the mind, but all that aside, you can keep them from tracking you by following the above HOWTO (I would echo it here, but the author deserves the credit).
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Brandon Says:
August 18th, 2006 at 12:39:38I thought proxies usually kept logs too, for legal security. But if that’s the case, at least they’re less likely to still have your activity logged after a couple of years than mighty Google I suppose
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Michael Says:
August 20th, 2006 at 01:51:50That’s a good point! This isn’t just any proxy: the Tor network is an inherently anonymous system. Check it out at tor.eff.org!
August 18th, 2006 at 12:39:38
I thought proxies usually kept logs too, for legal security. But if that’s the case, at least they’re less likely to still have your activity logged after a couple of years than mighty Google I suppose
August 20th, 2006 at 01:51:50
That’s a good point! This isn’t just any proxy: the Tor network is an inherently anonymous system. Check it out at tor.eff.org!