Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:37:44 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dani=EBl?= de Kok <me@danieldk.eu> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <20160714002117.224b64ae@archlinux.localdomain> <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net>
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:14:26PM +0000, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > OK, but where is that history kept, & how do they associate past & current > searches ? I think that there are two possibilities: 1. You see a correlation that does not really exist - Google is just suggesting probably completions of a query, and other people search similar things as you do. 2. Google does track you, and is using other means to uniquely identify you. EFF's Panopticlick [1] shows that most browsers have a fingerprint that is very unique. E.g. it finds that my particular browser fingerprint is unique among 132,254 browsers so far. At any rate, I agree with the grandparent poster: if you don't want Google to track you, don't use Google. StartPage is a good suggestion, you also might want to look into DuckDuckGo. With kind regards, Daniël [1] https://panopticlick.eff.org
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