5 ms·

why not share your search history ? what is the drama about it exactly ? seriously, since you can remain anonymous easily, I'd be interested in the reasons why

by pilooch 15y ago

why not share your search history ? what is the drama about it exactly ? seriously, since you can remain anonymous easily, I'd be interested in the reasons why you would not want to share queries and clicks.

dextorious 15y ago
"""seriously, since you can remain anonymous easily""" Easily, how? AFAICT, it's anything but easy. """I'd be interested in the reasons why you would not want to share queries and clicks.""" I don't want my preferences for naked hairy gay sailors to be known (oops, too late). I don't like to feed marketers and advertisers with information. I don't believe what I choose to read at home is anyone's business, so why should I treat what I read on the web any differently? It's only a "drama" to be mocked IF you live in your own little world, and no one, bar some advertisers, ever cares about you and your opinions. And you have to be living in the right country, too. Me, I would like to be able to do all below: a) use the interwebs b) be vocal against my government and/or whoever I see fit (in real life) c) not have my interests easily available to anyone
- pilooch 15y ago
  You're misinformed. Anomymity is damn easy. Add a single hop to the search engine or any other machine, and you're basically done. Remove some http headers and you're free. Use Tor and you'll be a new man. As for sharing queries and clicks, everything is shared encrypted (hashes). You're sharing hashed file fragments over bittorrent ? Do the same with queries. It's a win / win situation. Your friends and peers get higlighted results and so you do. FYI Google and all broad range search engine do this in the background, on their servers to improve results. They use various machine learning algorithms and adhoc tweaks for this. Sharing queries and building a P2P collaborative filter for search is just a way to expose the mechanics, with broad benefits and flexibility for users, computer scientists and hackers.
  - dextorious 15y ago
    """You're misinformed. Anomymity is damn easy. Add a single hop to the search engine or any other machine, and you're basically done. Remove some http headers and you're free.""" If only. """Use Tor and you'll be a new man.""" Yeah, like those Anonymous guys where, when the police came busting their doors down. Tor is not a guarantee for anonymity, except if you are extremely careful about your movements. Lot's of stuff can be correlated back to you.

by pilooch 15y ago

dextorious 15y ago

"""seriously, since you can remain anonymous easily""" Easily, how? AFAICT, it's anything but easy. """I'd be interested in the reasons why you would not want to share queries and clicks.""" I don't want my preferences for naked hairy gay sailors to be known (oops, too late). I don't like to feed marketers and advertisers with information. I don't believe what I choose to read at home is anyone's business, so why should I treat what I read on the web any differently? It's only a "drama" to be mocked IF you live in your own little world, and no one, bar some advertisers, ever cares about you and your opinions. And you have to be living in the right country, too. Me, I would like to be able to do all below: a) use the interwebs b) be vocal against my government and/or whoever I see fit (in real life) c) not have my interests easily available to anyone

pilooch 15y ago
You're misinformed. Anomymity is damn easy. Add a single hop to the search engine or any other machine, and you're basically done. Remove some http headers and you're free. Use Tor and you'll be a new man. As for sharing queries and clicks, everything is shared encrypted (hashes). You're sharing hashed file fragments over bittorrent ? Do the same with queries. It's a win / win situation. Your friends and peers get higlighted results and so you do. FYI Google and all broad range search engine do this in the background, on their servers to improve results. They use various machine learning algorithms and adhoc tweaks for this. Sharing queries and building a P2P collaborative filter for search is just a way to expose the mechanics, with broad benefits and flexibility for users, computer scientists and hackers.
- dextorious 15y ago
  """You're misinformed. Anomymity is damn easy. Add a single hop to the search engine or any other machine, and you're basically done. Remove some http headers and you're free.""" If only. """Use Tor and you'll be a new man.""" Yeah, like those Anonymous guys where, when the police came busting their doors down. Tor is not a guarantee for anonymity, except if you are extremely careful about your movements. Lot's of stuff can be correlated back to you.