You'd have to use TOR or something similar if you really don't want your browsing history passed around like a bong at Woodstock. And fake Mac address. However, your ISP can detect that you're trying to trick them, which may, in itself, put you on a government watch list.
The Patriot Act does away with any rights you think you have about privacy on the internet, or phone.
I use DDG - mostly because after I tested it out, I could search for something, go somewhere else and I noticed I did not get ads/pop ups related to a previous search. I don't figure I'm saving my privacy but I liked not getting creepy 'reminder ads' for things I had searched for.
Not so concerned myself. But Google benefits when I use their search, not when I use DDG. Google is getting too powerful. Just my little way to take a grain back.
I'm leaning toward I don't care either. IMO It's so pathetic, on their side, to have to track us to sell! sell! sell!
Thanks for the heads up on a different way to search, the creepy ads are annoying. In fact, they are more likely to sway my decision to not buy a product from the advertiser because I think their ads are annoying.
ugh
omg
I'm logging off now and going outside
If you have concerns about google selling your browsing data, you can always play the "google game" and even if you do an occasional real search on the engine, for each real search do one or two google game searches for things like " mink covered handle left hand metric water line pipe wrench", "famous Jewish Catholic Nuns", " Champ Chumps with Cash who made Change", "Search for Aearch Engines that don't know what to look for" , " Why are my keys always in the last place I look and that place is always the fridge" , "This, that, the other, , etc. or maybe something else" or any other weird search criteria.
If 10 folks each get 10 folks to play the google game, in just a few months of level creation of gamers, google would be a data gaggle goggle of goofball google searches not worth a handful of garbanzo beans.
Although one of the nerds in on the google game said it would be cool if a weird and stupid search somehow came up with zero items or went endless loop, I told him that was totally improbable because of how it apparently has the structured logic terminator counter register to end a does not compute logic flow after a determined number of tries base on it's "did you mean ?" status and altered search results, but its still fun seeing what results it comes up with for crazy searches.
One I tried was "electric wash boards to dry clean your clothes like the pioneers did" and its altered response were links to Zydeco Cajun band washboards designed to be plugged into amplifiers.
When I saw those results, I could almost see in my mind a Cajun version of Les Paul on his porch in a bayou saying in a Justin Wilson thick accent musing out load "OOOOwee Ah wonda if ah wired dis wash board into Leroy's guitar amp some way if they could hear me two parishes over dis muddy water on a good day without me getting fried like an inmate ridin' the lightning in the electric chair at Angola?"
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