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google privacy

  • 11-03-2012 1:04am
    #1
    Bob Z
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭


    Is it possible to use google services like gmail, youtube, google history etc and still have some privacy?


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  • #2
    _AVALANCHE_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭_AVALANCHE_


    Similar Thread

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056548074

    Install
    NoScript
    Ghostery
    adblock
    Delete Cookies
    http://www.superantispyware.com/ will get the hard to delete tasty cookies, mmmm.
    Put your Browser in Sandboxie (Not hard)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY



    What Google use and how it works.
    Advertising Cookie Opt-out Plugin (I never used this)


  • #3
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    TrackMeNot is another Firefox goodie. By issuing randomized queries to popular search-engines, including Google, Bing, and Baidu, TrackMeNot obfuscates users' search data profiles.

    Hide your search queries in plain sight, so to speak, and make proper profiling impossible.


  • #4
    ASJ112
    Site Banned Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭ASJ112


    Think a good easy start for everybody is to use at least the following

    DuckDuckGo search engine
    http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

    SRWare Iron(chrome without the privacy concerns)
    http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

    Ghostery - link below


    To get into more advanced privacy issues, you'd need to play with SRWare Iron configuration, use proxies, use Scriptno

    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiigbmnaadbkfbmpbfijlflahbdbdgdf


  • #5
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭_AVALANCHE_


    Torqay wrote: »
    TrackMeNot is another Firefox goodie. By issuing randomized queries to popular search-engines, including Google, Bing, and Baidu, TrackMeNot obfuscates users' search data profiles.

    Hide your search queries in plain sight, so to speak, and make proper profiling impossible.
    Reviews

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    by bobbybob on February 16, 2012 · permalink
    RWG comment (previous) is somewhat confusing! If TMN send "police child porn" as my request, it's kind of dangerous...
    For the moment, I keep this extension because idea is excellent.

    great idea, flawless execution, but.... Rated 1 out of 5 stars

    by RWG on February 10, 2012 · permalink
    I love the idea of TrackMeNot helping your computer and you get lost in a sea of search queries to help avoid targeting and tracking. As far as I could tell, it executed its mission flawlessly. However, this morning (2-10-12), I noticed one of the search queries was 'police child porn.' However innocuous that query is, I would say using it is a darned good way to draw perhaps unwanted and unfair scrutiny. So I said good-bye to TrackMeNot.
    Show the developer's reply to this review
    Not work in Fx 8.0.1 Rated 3 out of 5 stars

    by WhoeverIam 3000 on December 17, 2011 · permalink
    Tested the Version 0.7.81a in Fx 8.0.1, still can't get it work properly when TMN is enabled, no query is sent out as per its log.
    Not for me!


  • #6
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    bedlam wrote: »
    you can also add GoogleSharing into the mix.
    Potential for same as TrackMeNot.

    VPNs/proxys are good options, only the paid ones though.

    Hidemyass
    blackvpn
    overplay

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056066624


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  • #7
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    bedlam wrote: »
    It proxies/anonymizes your genuine google traffic rather than makes up fake data so there is not the potential for the same (I'm assuming you are referring to the KP keywords).
    So wait, you're giving my cookies to someone else?

    The cookies passed between the GoogleSharing identities do not originate from the users, but are rather assigned "fresh" from Google. Thus, you don't need to worry about your login credentials or any other identifying information showing up in someone else's request.

    But I'm sending you my cookies?

    No, your Google cookies are actually filtered by the GoogleSharing Firefox Addon before your request is transmitted to the proxy. So there should be no chance of any login credentials leaking from your browser.
    "should", hate seeing that word when looking for an answer to something.
    The more I look this up the messier it seems. It looks like you could end up with someone elses genuine searches. I wouldn't trust it....or them. Maybe it's OK but theirs just better more secure ways than relying on this.
    bedlam wrote: »
    Paid ones do not make them any more secure, you are just giving more details about your self with your payment method.

    Case in point:


    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/26/hidemyass_lulzsec_controversy/
    Those guys were using it to hack Sony though, crazy altogether when as you said they were paying for the service. If your're just using it to change your IP for legal privacy reasons then it would be fine.
    bedlam wrote: »
    edit: and a VPN will not prevent google from tracking your usage if you log in to their services (which is what the OP wants) while using the VPN.
    Correct, only logged out searches.


    TOR is a free option but put an evening aside to set it up right...if you haven't used it before.


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