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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?"
# cat > /etc/hosts ...
> google.com 127.0.0.1
> doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1
> youtube.com 127.0.0.1
> google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1
> #
> EOF
I use my butler Jeeves for everything. He arranges my travel, does my bills, and picks up anything I need from the store. He is fast, courteous and usually reliable. At the same time I know that he is aware of everything I do; I can see it in the way he can often provide suggestions which tend to match my interests. Do to some misplaced comments of his, I am now suspicious that he may not respect my privacy. How do I remain anonymous from my butler while still having him provide all the personal services that I am accustomed to?
No one will pay any attention.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
Justs Google it....oops!
where can I get one of these? I am doing lots of illegal things, and I dont want to ask Google - for obvious reasons :-)
Wow!
Your post is so specific and yet almost completely unhelpful at the same time.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Or you can just Opt Out
...read the summary.
I get that lab stuff too. Just ignore it. It doesn't make any part of your body get larger.
I'm paralysed by choice. I want to use all these products and services this company offers, but they don't want money, they just want to make a record when I use them. Please help.
Yay me!
don't trust any computer but your own if you're saavy enough to trust your computer
But if you're savvy enough to trust your own computer, then you're savvy enough to know that you can't trust your own computer...
That's why I put 4 80mm fans in it. When the little bastard tries to sneak up on me, I can hear it coming...
That was the problem--he should have used bing.
"Welcome to the new Slashdot, where everything Google does is great, and only people with something to hide would care about privacy."
Actually, that's the old Slashdot. The new Slashdot would be one where everyone was NOT a Google fanboy and didn't have their tongues all the way up Eric Schmid's ass.
Thank god for IPv6 ?
I had no part in that, and I resent the accusation.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
They do have extra info - flash cookies. I can safely bet 99% of you never remember to clear them
Don't need to. I use 64-bit Linux, so the Flash plugin breaks regularly without any effort on my part.