From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 14 14:00:49 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 E4BF1B9937E for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B572A17D0 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-209-65.knology.net [216.186.209.65] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id u6EE0lbD007424 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:00:47 -0500 Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question 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> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <120fab1f-e49b-df36-7f2d-d389c14a11f9@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:06:16 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 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 14:00:50 -0000 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.