From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 14 06:37:54 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D15B98BAD for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 06:37:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@danieldk.eu) Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com (out5-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.29]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4B041BF2 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 06:37:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@danieldk.eu) Received: from compute7.internal (compute7.nyi.internal [10.202.2.47]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66299205FC; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:37:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute7.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:37:46 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=danieldk.eu; h=cc :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-sasl-enc :x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=ICpkuY70KOq9MmGy6wpvXlsZZL0=; b=Hjq//0 o8Oj5eDlqpCOGCiFCK63lgENUcW3ctzJlVW7AF/pZWocvmm2rYMvgO9YL7X6MRWO Sjo4CMwvaSjF/kQGYhrBEcnStfvWIYwt3CVtk/APujgzwdqYiHNM4gjP/7g058F7 cw+VB4oZQ5OerG1zBo8c7tjJGy1h+JhViYAgw= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-sasl-enc:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=ICpkuY70KOq9MmG y6wpvXlsZZL0=; b=j4DlebgfY9yHslw4sqru+DUGBFGMcSv1El2LHGRBD4gv1Yw KMTftu/mO83oh5DJO9NiCI9PAVOr8iIHZjtUNY4MO6GYuws0evHsx9ihh86MXPWU HeHORLUS072D0nljYzCfzmYiOjwCRO3TWntcx6yE8FB3fcFA0RQwOzQujcko= X-Sasl-enc: L3DIOMz3nL35p6wfGOC+4kZMH71JnYje+CvACVqW0Ueo 1468478265 Received: from localhost (dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.128.188]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EE065F29E1; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:37:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:37:44 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dani=EBl?= de Kok To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <20160714002117.224b64ae@archlinux.localdomain> <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1-neo (2016-06-11) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 06:37:54 -0000 On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:14:26PM +0000, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > OK, but where is that history kept, & how do they associate past & current > searches ? I think that there are two possibilities: 1. You see a correlation that does not really exist - Google is just suggesting probably completions of a query, and other people search similar things as you do. 2. Google does track you, and is using other means to uniquely identify you. EFF's Panopticlick [1] shows that most browsers have a fingerprint that is very unique. E.g. it finds that my particular browser fingerprint is unique among 132,254 browsers so far. At any rate, I agree with the grandparent poster: if you don't want Google to track you, don't use Google. StartPage is a good suggestion, you also might want to look into DuckDuckGo. With kind regards, Daniël [1] https://panopticlick.eff.org