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Kudos to DDG. Finally a good alternative to the big G. What scares me the most sometimes is when I think about how ubiquitous Google's ads network and analytic

Kudos to DDG. Finally a good alternative to the big G. What scares me the most sometimes is when I think about how ubiquitous Google's ads network and analytics network are. Most of the websites I visit use AdSense and/or Google Analytics. Some are using Google's copy of popular javascript libraries like jQuery. This means that when you are moving from site A to site B to site C, there is a good chance that even though A or B or C does not know about it, Google knows your full browsing path and even how you move from one to another. I am not saying that Google is actually doing it, but it is scary someone has the capability to do it and to know more about you than the government and your mother do. It is important a significant portion of the website and our browsing activities are outside of Google's networks.

huertanix 16y ago
Enter, Google Alarm: http://fffff.at/google-alarm/ http://fffff.at/google-alarm/
btilly 16y ago
Some are using Google's copy of popular javascript libraries like jQuery. This means that when you are moving from site A to site B to site C, there is a good chance that even though A or B or C does not know about it, Google knows your full browsing path and even how you move from one to another. Wrong. When a browser gets a request for a JavaScript file that it has seen before, it returns a cached copy from the local hard drive rather than sending out a request to the website. Therefore sites that use Google's copy of jQuery are maximizing their chances of having browsers not make a round trip, rather than giving Google something that they can use for tracking.
Matt_Cutts 16y ago
"I am not saying that Google is actually doing it, but it is scary someone has the capability to do it" Uh, eddieplan9, you know that ISPs not only have this data but also your identity? Or that some ISPs sell that data to metrics companies? Here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/isps_selling_cl/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/isps_selling_cl/ It's always strange to me that people worry about Google, when ISPs have a superset of the data that Google sees, plus your identity.

huertanix 16y ago

Enter, Google Alarm: http://fffff.at/google-alarm/ http://fffff.at/google-alarm/

btilly 16y ago

Some are using Google's copy of popular javascript libraries like jQuery. This means that when you are moving from site A to site B to site C, there is a good chance that even though A or B or C does not know about it, Google knows your full browsing path and even how you move from one to another. Wrong. When a browser gets a request for a JavaScript file that it has seen before, it returns a cached copy from the local hard drive rather than sending out a request to the website. Therefore sites that use Google's copy of jQuery are maximizing their chances of having browsers not make a round trip, rather than giving Google something that they can use for tracking.

Matt_Cutts 16y ago

"I am not saying that Google is actually doing it, but it is scary someone has the capability to do it" Uh, eddieplan9, you know that ISPs not only have this data but also your identity? Or that some ISPs sell that data to metrics companies? Here: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/isps_selling_cl/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/03/isps_selling_cl/ It's always strange to me that people worry about Google, when ISPs have a superset of the data that Google sees, plus your identity.