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:If you asked me...

[davidshewitt]

This is from the Onion. Why was it modded informative?

Re:Ideas

[postbigbang]

Mod parent up.

Being held hostage is a bad idea. There are lots of decent drop boxes out there. Use them. Or break down and get a coupla firewire drives (or equiv) and stop feeding the monster.

Schmidt exposed the reality: Google's mission is to sell info about you. They're trolls, and huge trolls at that.

The best way to get around them is to bot some machines in Belarus and randomly proxy across them. Otherwise, they'll eventually figure it out.

Then you're Tiger Woods.