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Re:How I Learned to Live Google-free by yaix on Friday June 10, 2011 @01:12PM (#2641603)
Why would I want to live "Google free"?

Compared to other companies who collect similar amounts of data, G has (as of yet) behaved quite well.

If I don't want AdWords or Analytics tracking, I can redirect their domains to 127.0.0.1 (which I do for Analytics).

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Re:How I Learned to Live Google-free by minalecs on Friday June 10, 2011 @06:05PM (#2642599)
you can opt out as well - http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
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Re:How I Learned to Live Google-free by kenjackson on Saturday June 11, 2011 @12:02AM (#2643182)
Thanks. Opt-ed out. Although I must admit the ads seem pretty much the same.
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Re:How I Learned to Live Google-free by maigret on Saturday June 11, 2011 @04:31AM (#2643478)
You can also use the Ghostery browser plugin for that, and it also protects you from many other ad services.
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Re:How I Learned to Live Google-free by phlux on Friday June 10, 2011 @09:57PM (#2642994)
Can you post a list of your /hosts/
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Re:How I Learned to Live Google-free by dspace on Friday June 10, 2011 @11:30PM (#2643150)
Here's the ultimate hosts file.

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

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Re:How I Learned to Live Google-free by Terretta on Friday June 10, 2011 @11:25PM (#2643145)
Here's a full set: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
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