Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:06:16 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <120fab1f-e49b-df36-7f2d-d389c14a11f9@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <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> <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
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On 07/14/16 01:43, Daniël de Kok wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Thanks, I switched to StartPage & installed the PrivacyBadger from EFF, we'll see how it goes. I already had NoScript installed, although I had to leave a fair number of openings to get various web pages to function (my bank, my broker, etc.). Thanks. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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