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No, SM, not big, just cookies that don't expire until 2038 and profiling users might be just a little naughty. An anonymising proxy based search plugin may well be the answer for Firefox users. Those without Firefox can still make use of Blackboxsearch - at least until something a little more ethical (than BlackBox or Google) appears.

FWIW, BlackBox is also slightly naughty. It's using Google's search technology without giving anything back. The disparity between getting a few links and giving up your right not to be profiled makes it the lesser of two evils, though.

Pick your engine and don't give them the information in the first place.

Data retention without an IP is worthless

http://www.mysecureisp.com/

also.. http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

We all saw this coming.
I prefer to do something about it.

http://www.mysecureisp.com/

http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

We all saw this coming. I prefer to do something about it. http://www.mysecureisp.com/ http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

Google and AOL we salute YOU! http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

for search: http://www.blackboxsearch.com/ for full proxy. http://www.mysecureisp.com/

http://www.blackboxsearch.com/
and http://www.mysecureisp.com/

http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

unless you just crazy

its so-oo-oo simple. http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

The only thing standing between the Net and your privacy is YOU. Remember the AOL search screw-up? Here is an easy tool to help with things like that http://www.blackboxsearch.com/ -- it's important to find and use the tools available that actually work...

And you wont get bit by this crap. Its free as in beer. http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

Just use a proxy like black box search.

Ta da

http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

And the solution is to stop trusting these guys and use your own head. Heres a good way to do just that with a search proxy.
http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

AOL should be lynched but other than that obvious fact ;)
I use a search proxy and of course Im not an AOL luser.

Took me 5 years to get my mom off of it too.
http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

use a search proxy. http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

Its easy and even newbies can use it been around for a while.

http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

There are also free search proxies that have been around forever. A search proxy does a more specific job of disabling cookies, and click tracking and you dont need to download any software at all. http://www.blackboxsearch.com/ is a good one and its free.

'Deleting the cookie' does nothing to remove your stored search history crosslinked to your IP address

Having a dynamic IP does not help if you use your computer regularly to check email, log in to slashdot, or visit your unique collection of news sites: anything that can link your particular IP-of-the-day to your identity.

Oh, but there's more. It's not just searches. Just today I noticed that Google is serving css and javascript from www.google.com for third-party sites such as blogs.

So in other words, they can track you across the web unless you foil this too. Prior to this, you could avoid being tracked from site to site by (a) controlling cookies (I never allow beyond-current-session cookies for any site, ever) and (b) black-holing advertising and tracking sites including pagead2.google.com and google analytics, etc.. But now it's either filter www.google.com too, and not have access to their main site; or leave it unfiltered and let Google map all your searches to your IP *plus* the fact that you visit site A, then site B etc. (maybe even what you do there, if they're using XmlHTTPRequest to the max).

So now the practical privacy protection is use the kind of solution the link in the story recommends (FF extension) or maybe searching via something like blackboxsearch or scroogle.

The better solution would be a way to selectively block third-party accessory files - JS, CSS, images ( blacklist/whitelist and 3rd party vs. current site). The Mozilla browsers have an option to disallow third-party images but it doesn't work. Users also need control over XmlHTTPRequest, including optional notification of when it is used, option to turn it off (it's supposed to be same-site-only but iframes are a big loophole).

http://www.blackboxsearch.com/ ;)

A search proxy will prevent establishign ip and user identity with search terms and tracking of results clicked on. Get hip to it. Alot of services exist. This is my fav http://www.blackboxsearch.com/

And forget these guys. http://www.blackboxsearch.com/