Re:Scroogle, Privacy-First Search Engine, Shuts Down for Good
by greyman on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @07:41PM
(#3618707)
Killing Google's cookies will not make your search anonymous, since you can still be identified by your IP address.
Re:Scroogle, Privacy-First Search Engine, Shuts Down for Good
by pconf on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:21PM
(#3618866)
Not just IP address but also browser signature, screen size and resolution, javascript settings and anything else in the HTTP header. See http://browserspy.dk/ for details.
Re:Scroogle, Privacy-First Search Engine, Shuts Down for Good
by andrewcooke on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @10:30PM
(#3619314)
yes, i know (and also browser fingerprinting if they really wanted to), but do they do that? as far as i know, they do not (likely for various reasons - bad press, confusion of people behind NATs, etc).
[i mean, more exactly, that i have heard nothing about them updating personal information with data from searches when not logged in; i am not talking aggregate info like typical searches from geoip locations]
there's also http://www.googlesharing.net/ which is an anonymizing proxy service, but i think it's firefox specific.
personally, i just stopped using their other services (i tried disconnect, but vaguely remember various issues when otherwise logged in) - as far as i know, they don't track you when you're not logged in (to be more sure i also use ghostery - that, together with disconnect, prevents a lot of tracking).