Hiding From Google

penguinrecorder writes "Google offers Web users a simple trade-off: Let the search giant track a substantial portion of your comings and goings around the Web, and it will offer you a free, superior online experience. Now independent security researcher Moxie Marlinspike is making Web users a counter-offer: take Google's giveaways and keep your privacy too. On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched a service he calls GoogleSharing, a plug-in for Firefox designed to give users access to Google's online offerings while cloaking their identity from the company's data collection tools. By hosting a proxy server with a collection of Google 'identities,' the privacy software will allow users temporarily to route their traffic through another computer that masks their identity by mixing their online actions with those of other users. The system is totally transparent, with no special 'alternative' websites to visit. Your normal work flow should be exactly the same." GoogleSharing only works for those services not requiring a Google login; for the latter, no proxying is done.

Comments

Obligatory Onion

[Arthur Grumbine]

They've had an opt out option for a long time.

Re:"Don't trust Google, trust me!"

[Arthur Grumbine]

1. Setup proxy for paranoids
2. Data mine the search habits of paranoids
3. ????
4. Profit!

Re:"Don't trust Google, trust me!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Data mine the search habits of paranoids

(1) "tin foil"
(2) "michelle obama monkey"
(2) "2d amendment"
(3) "storm front"
(2) "zog mashine"
(4) "chick blowing a mule"
(6) "hot for cousin"
(7) goto 1

Re:And we're trusting you because....

[neokushan]

No. And you've been warned about that kind of thinking. It's off to the Chemical sheds for you!

Re:"Don't trust Google, trust me!"

[Arthur Grumbine]

Wow, that's the first time I've seen that used where ???? has about eighty possible inputs, all of which make sense.

And yet none of them...
*puts on sunglasses*
makes cents.

YEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!