Would you pay Google to NOT track/profile you?

[Oyeve]

Hard to say. Google is involved in a little bit of everything, but I'll give a few substitutions...

Search - DuckDuckGo. Without cost, but doesn't track you in any way. Privacy is what they're about.

Email - Lavabit. They don't scan your email for keywords, and they have server side encryption. Alternately, you can run your own email server.

Browser - Firefox. Libre software, and you can tell exactly what they're doing by looking at the code.

Office Collaboration - Run your own server using libre software. I don't know the particulars as I don't use it.

Social networking - Diaspora. Gratis and libre. You control your data.

You really believe any of this shit actually protects you? Once you are connected nothing protects you.

 

[lxskllr]

You really believe any of this shit actually protects you? Once you are connected nothing protects you.

Depends on how well you want to stay hidden. It absolutely will keep you from getting tracked, and still remain convenient. If you want to add complexity/absolute anonymity, you can use Tor, or I2p. By doing that you lose the convenience.

 

[Miramonti]

That's a browser extension that blocks a lot of scripts and cookies from many companies. The privacy isn't absolute, but it goes a long way towards that goal. Everything's a trade off between convenience and security. There's much more anonymous ways to use the web, but things get really slow, and you lose a lot of features.

Interesting, test running it now.

You come to a forum, post on a fake name, then claim that using a fake name like jjsole is shallow.

Hotlink errors can minimize the full impact of one's insults.

 

[Blackjack200]

Google has a great product set, but I don't want to trade my privacy for it anymore. I'd be willing to pay $10 - $20 a month no problem if I could use all their services with complete privacy. They would never allow it however, they make far more than that tracking us. I really feel like I'm going to need to find new tools, and it's gonna be a PITA.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

LOL at the paranoid idiots here.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I would consider it, not sure if I'd actually do it. Though they actually should offer that as an option as I bet lot of people would pay for it. Basically as long as you are logged in, all your info would not be recorded if you are paying for that option. I would maybe pay, and use some of the money I get from adsense to cover it.

 

[Miramonti]

LOL at the paranoid idiots here.

I'm not taking the bait but will note that concern for privacy should be considered proactive sensibility imo, not paranoia.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I wouldn't do it. Google tracking me for the mundane shit I search on google is something I simply do not care about.

Privacy matters, but in terms of google searches, who the fuck cares. Its essentially my payment to use their extremely excellent services and the impact of it is more personalized search results.

Win win.

 

[drebo]

Depends on how well you want to stay hidden. It absolutely will keep you from getting tracked, and still remain convenient. If you want to add complexity/absolute anonymity, you can use Tor, or I2p. By doing that you lose the convenience.

Except that unless you run everything over an encrypted tunnel, your ISP still knows exactly what you're doing. And, even then, they may have an SSL tunnel that still knows exactly what you're doing.

Wise men don't use the Internet for anything they wouldn't mind explaining infront of a judge or a jury...in which case, who the fuck cares if Google knows that you searched for dirty women's underwear yesterday?

 

[lxskllr]

Except that unless you run everything over an encrypted tunnel, your ISP still knows exactly what you're doing. And, even then, they may have an SSL tunnel that still knows exactly what you're doing.

I2p uses end to end encryption as long as you stay within the I2p network. If you want to browse the greater web, you'd have to add on to the I2p scheme. I haven't given it enough thought to figure out the exact protocol necessary.

LOL at the paranoid idiots here.

An idiot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hDDsidy-o&t=1m40s

Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project.


1986: Honorary life time membership in the Chalmers Computer Society
1990: Receives a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
1990: The Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award "For pioneering work in the development of the extensible editor EMACS (Editing Macros)."
1996: Honorary doctorate from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology
1998: Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award
1999: Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award
2001: The Takeda Techno-Entrepreneurship Award for Social/Economic Well-Being
2001: Honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow
2002: United States National Academy of Engineering membership
2003: Honorary doctorate from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
2003: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería del Perú
2004: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Salta, in Argentina
2004: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
2005: Fundazione Pistoletto prize
2007: Honorary professorship from the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in Peru
2007: First Premio Iternacional Extremadura al Conocimiento Libre
2007: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Los Angeles de Chimbote, in Peru
2007: Honorary doctorate from the University of Pavia
2008: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, in Peru
2009: Honorary doctor of science degree from Lakehead University in Canada
2008: Honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, in Argentina

 

[ShawnD1]

LOL at the paranoid idiots here.

You should be paranoid about using your real name. Seriously. That would suck if you missed a job opportunity because they googled your name and found pictures of you being a retard.

I wouldn't be too worried about google stalking me. Why does it matter if they know I like big asses? Them knowing that will not cost me a job.

 

[skyking]

Thanks man. I have been lax about this stuff, simply being lazy. I used "add to search bar" to make DDG my search tool, and installed ghostery.
I do have a gmail account to contend with.

 

[Ben90]

You should be paranoid about using your real name. Seriously. That would suck if you missed a job opportunity because they googled your name and found pictures of you being a retard.

I wouldn't be too worried about google stalking me. Why does it matter if they know I like big asses? Them knowing that will not cost me a job.

Benjamin Tyler Bernier is my full name.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

I2p uses end to end encryption as long as you stay within the I2p network. If you want to browse the greater web, you'd have to add on to the I2p scheme. I haven't given it enough thought to figure out the exact protocol necessary.



An idiot...

Says a guy that actully thinks Google gives a fuck about what you do. You're not nearly important enough for any large corporation to care about you.

People are throwing a hissy fit now when it was being done before and, as expected, nothing happened. Stop cowering over nothing.

 

[lxskllr]

Says a guy that actully thinks Google gives a fuck about what you do. You're not nearly important enough for any large corporation to care about you.

People are throwing a hissy fit now when it was being done before and, as expected, nothing happened. Stop cowering over nothing.

Maybe you should apprise yourself of the facts, and look deeper than the micro-thin surface you're fixated on. Here's a big hint to get you started. The issue isn't Google...

 

[Miramonti]

Says a guy that actully thinks Google gives a fuck about what you do. You're not nearly important enough for any large corporation to care about you.

People are throwing a hissy fit now when it was being done before and, as expected, nothing happened. Stop cowering over nothing.

Drama queen much?

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Drama queen much?

From the same person who just said:

I'm not taking the bait but will note that concern for privacy should be considered proactive sensibility imo, not paranoia.

LMAO. Pot, meet kettle.

 

[Golgatha]

What a stupid question. That's like asking if I would pay $20 for some dude to not-rape my wife. I can not-rape my own wife, thank you very much.

If you don't want them knowing stuff, stop posting stuff. The name on my facebook profile is spelled wrong just so it's harder to dig up dirt. People also assume my name is Shawn because that's my user name. That's not my name.

The only way to ensure you aren't tracked is to put enough disinformation out there that your true self can't be determined.