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Lifehack: use another search engine and at least avoid the search query lists
by qup 3y ago
Lifehack: use another search engine and at least avoid the search query lists
- ta8903 3y agoIf you use google (the search engine) without being signed in and without sharing your location data, I doubt they could tie down any relevant information to you.
- stevezsa8 3y agoDoesn't any web request need a source IP address? So I'm sure Google can infer who you are. Or atleast your household. Plus, even if you used a Trusted^TM VPN, if the authorities want to know who you are, chances are they can find out.
- orthoxerox 3y agoIf you disable every cookie, run anti-fingerprinting on your (desktop!) browser and route your requests through TOR, then probably yes.
- bagels 3y agoImportance of advertising revenue would dictate otherwise.
- deadalus 3y agoI use Bing for porn. For reverse image search, I use Yandex. And for researching psychedelics and conspiracy(censored) topics - I use Brave Search. I use Google only for vanilla search that shows I am a good citizen(navigation, online shopping, general research on movies and sports...etc). I don't want my search Identity to be fully profiled by Google. Police(and other bad actors like a hostile government) are more likely to access my data on Google than on other lesser know search engine.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y agoWhy use Google at all, instead of something like DuckDuckGo?
- mpeg 3y agoDDG is based in the US, what assurances do you have they would not comply to this kind of data request?
- fwn 3y ago> ... what assurances do you have they would not comply ... While compliance is certainly not optional, the value of your compliance is highly dependent on your technology. (The authors mention this in the article by writing that Apple does not collect the same kind of data as Google.) I think it is like choosing VPN providers. You never know if they were involved in compromising their customers until they are caught compromising their customers. So if you have a choice between two similar VPN providers, and one of them is known to be involved in compromising their customers, you use the other one. I do not see how this would be any different with search.
- qbrass 3y agoI quit using DDG because when it ran out of answers based on what I searched for, it would spam results of 'random word in search query + city/area based on IP address'. Which was not only completely useless, but creepy as fuck.
- 9991 3y agoHow do you know all search engines aren’t compromised? (OK, reasonable chance Yandex isn’t compromised by your government, but the others?)
- FormerBandmate 3y agoYandex is absurdly compromised
- 9991 3y agoBy whom?
- boopmaster 3y agosemi-related: I do get a jolly deep belly laugh when "a threat to national security" is loosely tossed out as doublespeak for "an augment to individual privacy". Without a VPN or tor on at least some of those browsers, though, I imagine the metadata strewn about could get stitched back together on the data-broker (ad-tech) end of all those transactions. this is why RMS ssh's into a pine server to read email, i reckon.
- ggm 3y agoBing over yandex to avoid kompromat?
- walteweiss 3y agoDa, comrade