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Defeating Google's Perpetual Search Logging
heretic108 writes "Google's policy of storing everyone's search histories forever is causing concern amongst many, especially since Google stores a cookie on everyone's PC expiring in 2038. But at least one user is fighting back. His short and simple guide tells you how to set up any decent web browser so that it routes Google requests through an anonymous proxy, while sending everything else direct to the net for full-speed surfing. Follow these steps and get Google's nose out of your business once and for all."
If you are going to the trouble of setting up a proxy, why not use it for all of your web traffic? I mean, there are websites out there that collect just as much information as Google does, why do you want them collecting information about you?
Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hangar and no one gets hurt.
Use Customize Google:
Customize Google For Internet Explorer
Customize Google For FireFox
Both will anonymize your google cookie, click tracking and much more.
Both are free open source projects.
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No it doesn't. It tells you how to set it up with Firefox and only Firefox via the FoxyProxy extension. That's a far cry from what you're claiming; no instructions for Safari or Opera.
because you cannot be found guilty of thinking about a crime.
A group in Canada was arrested for thinking about bombing a Hudson tunnel. A group in Miami was arrested for thinking about bombing buildings in Chicago. Not only didn't they have bombs, they didn't have materials or knowledge of how to put one together. They didn't even have money or connections, just that, as sick as they were, they wanted to perform bombings, at the time of the arrests, they simply didn't have any capacity to carry it out. Given that these were effectively pre-crime, it's not much of a leap as you think.