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GoogleSharing, Now With No Trust Required

Posted by Soulskill on from the nobody-will-know-about-your-boring-searches dept.

An anonymous reader writes "GoogleSharing, the popular Google anonymizing service created by well known privacy advocate and security researcher Moxie Marlinspike, has released a major new version today. The biggest change is leveraging Google's SSL search option to provide an anonymizing service which doesn't require you to trust either Google or GoogleSharing. This means that anyone who wishes to opt out of Google's data collection practices can now do so without having to trust the operator of the anonymizing service."

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  1. Re:No, not Really? by snowraver1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me refer you to the second sentence of the summary:

    "The biggest change is leveraging Google's SSL search option to provide an anonymizing service which doesn't require you to trust either Google or GoogleSharing."

    Kids today...

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  2. Re:Not a Rhetorical Question by Chaonici · · Score: 5, Informative

    From GoogleSharing's FAQ:

    Why not use Anonymizer or any other anonymizing proxy service?

    General purpose anonymizing proxies are designed for something else.

          1. Most will mask your IP address, but not the identifying information in your HTTP headers. Google will still know who you are based on your Cookies, User Agent, etc...
          2. If the proxy does attempt to anonymize HTTP headers, they will do it by completely stripping cookies from your request. Google does not like this, and will tag you as a SPAM bot (how convient for them to do), which will force you to type in a CAPTCHA every time you issue a Google search, and will prevent you from issuing Maps requests at all.
          3. These types of proxies can be slow. It's not necessary to proxy all of your internet traffic if you're just trying to protect yourself from Google. Since GoogleSharing only proxies Google traffic, our bandwidth needs are much lower and thus our performance is much greater.