Firefox add-on disrupts Google data collection

ComputerWorld UK ^ | 19 April 2010 | Jeremy Kirk

[ShadowAce]

[Paladin2]

Ghostery.

[Oberon]

Normally I despise Microsoft, but when Google started acting like they owned the market I switched to Bing.

Works good, too.

[TChris]

So we just have to trust the proxy operators and the add-on developers more than we trust Google, right?

[Shady]

Me too, much better except for people searches..Ha Ha.

[ConservativeMind]

Does this also do this IP change on YouTube and Google-Syndication actions?

[scoobysnak71]

Al Gore says "Ignore this. Keep using Google. I'm not selling as many Carbon Credits anymore, so I need the additional income! Thanks for YOUR support!"

[UCANSEE2]

There are many Firefox ADD ONS that do the same thing.

Ghostery
AdBlockPlus
TACO
BetterPrivacy

etc....

[Rio]

Gets mixed reviews here.

I'm using StartPage, and it works pretty well while masking your IP.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Ghostery rocks.

[counterpunch]

Are any of these for ie?

[Crimson Elephant]

scroogle.org

[JoSixChip]

bump

[VA_Gentleman]

bump for later

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Groowe toolbar with Scroogle plugin + TrackMeNot extension.

Never have a problem with Google tracking anything.

TrackMeNot is sending bogus random querries to Google every 30 seconds. No way they could detect me inside all that static.

Scroogle scrubs referrers off google searches.

[GOPJ]

bump for later

[UCANSEE2]

Are any of these for ie?

No. Just Firefox.

[SgtHooper]

Agreed. scroogle.

[JerseyHighlander]

I’ve been using an experimental firefox add-on to get around the man in the middle attacks...

The homepage for the project and the Firefox add-on
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/

Summary:

Perspectives is a new approach to help clients securely identify Internet servers in order to avoid “man-in-the-middle” attacks. Perspectives is simple and cheap compared to existing approaches because it automatically builds a robust database of network identities using lightweight network probing by “network notaries” located in multiple vantage points across the Internet.