How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google?

hubert.lepicki writes "I use Google all the time. I keep two GMail tabs open when I'm online (one is private, another is a corporate account), I use Google search, and recently I switched to the Chromium browser. Google's services are fast, easy to use and usually reliable. At the same time, I know Google is tracking everything I do; I can see it in search results or their ads on web pages, which tend to match my interests. After the recent post by Mozilla's community director suggesting Bing has a better privacy policy (a response to questionable comments from Google CEO Eric Schmidt), I started to... 'google' ways of keeping my private data safe while browsing and using Google services. The results weren't very helpful, so I ask you, Slashdotters: how do I stay anonymous to Google while using their services?"

Comments

Re:Ideas

[Frosty Piss]

Firefox does the job (though it freezes far too often for me).

There is *NOTHING* wrong with Firefox. What you are experiencing is *user error*. There's a simple fix: it requires a specific text file that you'll need to edit, clear a few ini variables, then restart. You could have Googled this.

Remember your tin foil hat

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to work for an ISP. Theoretically we could have tracked what people did on the net. (Disregarding issues of legality and ethics of course).

But guess what: you people are not that interesting. You think your life is so brilliant that large corporations want to spend lots of money tracking your pr0n surfing and whatnot. But you just aren't that interesting. Get off your ego trip, it is warping your understanding of reality.

Re:Not exactly what you want, but

[Anonymous Coward]

You're an idiot