GoogleSharing :: A Special Kind Of Proxy
Brilliant tool, by moxie marlinspike, that lets you use (some of) Googles services without giving out all your surfing habits.
- You use Firefox for browsing the web.
- You download and install a plugin.
- You restart Firefox.
- The plugin redirects Google traffic to a proxy (after cleaning up your data some).
- The proxy sends your query to the real Google service using a random identity and relays the answer back to you. (The proxy uses different identities for every query and even invents some queries of its own now and again, effectively mixing your data with lots of other real and fake data.)
- Your browser presents the data to you.
Why would you not want Google to have your search history? The About page writes a little bit about it.
You can run your own proxy if you’d like. Either on your local machine (the one your browser is running on) or some server if you have one. Or you can use the one provided by googlesharing.net. Both have its merits and drawbacks.
