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| | danboy321 | Apr 19, 12:53am | | I heard that google keeps all searches you make for 40 years. Is this true? I also heard that deleting something from your google account only deletes your access to the information, google still has access to it. |
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Sponsor |  lerryn | Apr 19, 2:45am | they have not been in business 40 years, in reality they keep everything you have ever searched! the solution is to clear all long-lasting cookies, set your browser to not keep cookies between restarts, and divert all google requests out through an anonymous proxy.
This will protect your privacy as far as google is concerned, but allow you to enjoy full-speed browsing with other sites.
Follow these simple steps:
1.Get access to an anonymous web proxy. A common favourite is the Tor network
2.Be using Mozilla Firefox.
3.Install the FoxyProxy extension for Firefox
4.Within FoxyProxy configuration, add an entry for your anonymous proxy. Within this proxy, add 2 whitelist wildcard rules, with the patterns:
* http://*.google.com/*
* google.com [google.com]
5.Clear out all your browser cookies
6. Set Firefox so that it only keeps cookies till you close Firefox (Edit/Preferences/Privacy/Cookies)
7.If there are any other sites that may be unduly logging your activity, and don't have a regular log deletion policy, add some entries for these sites into your anonymous proxy match list in FoxyProxy.
With these measures in place, all your regular web requests will go out directly to the internet, while all requests for *.google.com will go via the Tor anonymity network. Also, since your cookies are getting deleted every time you close/restart Firefox, then Google will no longer be able to build a history of your web surfing. |
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