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To: Reddy

Correction: No account means that YOU won’t be tracked?

Also, what are the subsidiaries of Google that need to be avoided? Yahoo??


28 posted on 02/23/2012 4:51:51 PM PST by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Reddy
If you allow cookies then you can be tracked with or without a Google account. Google has recently been caught ignoring/by-passing privacy features in two Internet browsers to collect user data.

One way to avoid being tracked and still use Google, etc. is to use Tor www.torproject.org. "Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis"

Download the Tor Browser Bundle and keep it updated. The Tor browser (Firefox) comes preconfigured and you can use it for all your web use or just for searches and then use your "regular" browser to go to the sites. Again, if you use another browser other than the Tor Browser Bundle then cookies can track your web usage.

If the State or your ISP wants to track your Internet usage they can do it fairly easily. Using Tor helps but it is not foolproof.

30 posted on 02/23/2012 5:29:07 PM PST by VoteHarryBrowne2000 (Mad as Zell! (Awakening for my Quadrennial pre-election posts, will update tag line soon.))
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