[Sheflug] Google Sharing

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Might interest someone out there....

http://www.googlesharing.net/

"  GoogleSharing is a special kind of anonymizing proxy service, 
designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a 
level of anonymity that will prevent Google from tracking your 
searches, movements, and what websites you visit. GoogleSharing is not 
a full proxy service designed to anonymize all your traffic, but rather 
something designed exclusively for your communication with Google. Our 
system is totally transparent, with no special "alternative" websites 
to visit. Your normal work flow should be exactly the same. 
The Basic Problem 
Google thrives where privacy does not. If you're like most internet 
users, Google knows more about you than you might be comfortable with. 
Whether you were logged in to a Google account or not, they know 
everything you've ever searched for, what search results you clicked 
on, what news you read, and every place you've ever gotten directions 
to. Most of the time, thanks to things like Google Analytics, they 
even know which websites you visited that you didn't reach through 
Google. If you use Gmail, they know the content of every email you've 
ever sent or received, whether you've deleted it or not. 
They know who your friends are, where you live, where you work, and 
where you spend your free time. They know about your health, your love 
life, and your political leanings. These days they are even branching 
out into collecting your realtime GPS location and your DNS lookups. 
In short, not only do they know a lot about what you're doing, they 
also have significant insight into what you're thinking. 
Where GoogleSharing Comes In 
GoogleSharing is a system that mixes the requests of many different 
users together, such that Google is not capable of telling what is 
coming from whom. GoogleSharing aims to do a few very specific things: 
Provide a system that will prevent Google from collecting information 
about you from services which don't require a login. 
Make this system completely transparent to the user. No special 
websites, no change to your work flow. 
Leave your non-Google traffic completely untouched, unredirected, and 
unaffected. "

-- 
Richard
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