Thursday, August 31, 2006
And another search-privacy tool
This one, called TrackMeNot, is a Firefox exstention that, as AP writer Anick Jesdan says, "seeks to make your searches more private by hiding them in plain sight." It works by periodically sending out random queries to popular search engines, hiding your actual search trail "in a cloud of 'ghost' queries." This makes it less likely that anyone can identify you by aggregating your searches, as The New York Times was able to do with an AOL searcher.
posted by Robert Ambrogi @ 9:55 PM,
2 Comments:
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At 10:38 PM,
Ken Chan said...
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Sounds interesting but...
Using TrackMeNot violates Google's Terms of Service (http://www.google.com/intl/en/terms_of_service.html). Specifically, TrackMeNot "issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines," but Google's TOS prohibits the sending of "automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google." -
At 12:55 AM,
tal said...
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Using search proxies is easy. You get the convenience of google without the problems.
http://www.blackboxsearch.com
Theres also a plugin for firefox
you can get it here
http://www.connorboyack.com/blog/black-box-firefox-plugin
