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Killing Google's cookies will not make your search anonymous, since you can still be identified by your IP address.
by greyman 15y ago
Killing Google's cookies will not make your search anonymous, since you can still be identified by your IP address.
- pconf 15y agoNot just IP address but also browser signature, screen size and resolution, javascript settings and anything else in the HTTP header. See http://browserspy.dk/ http://browserspy.dk/ for details.
- andrewcooke 15y agoyes, i know (and also browser fingerprinting if they really wanted to), but do they do that? as far as i know, they do not (likely for various reasons - bad press, confusion of people behind NATs, etc). [i mean, more exactly, that i have heard nothing about them updating personal information with data from searches when not logged in; i am not talking aggregate info like typical searches from geoip locations]