Are you ready for Google's new privacy policy March 1

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:38 pm

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How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has a simple article up showing you how to remove your Google search history before the new privacy policy takes effect. It is important to note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes.

Basically all you need to do is:

1: Sign into your Google account

2: Go to https://www.google.com/history

3: Click “remove all web history”

4” Click “ok”.

Note: You will need to do this for all Google accounts you have.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:55 pm

Its why you should either

A- not have a google account

B- never search for bomb making, baby bashing, or midget granny porn whil you are logged into it

C- Every one can use Mick Jones like me, he does some evil shit as it is so it don't matter Laughing

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:58 pm

Its Google Analytics that collects allot of the stuff block that script is a good start and use duckduckgo for searching might also help ..

Laughing

@ trollster

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:00 pm

urchin.js is THE one to block, any other we know of?
and yes urchin is running on the webserver, not on your browser Twisted Evil

also the following IP address ranges belong to Google:

64.233.160.0 - 64.233.191.255
66.102.0.0 - 66.102.15.255
66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
72.14.192.0 - 72.14.255.255
74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255
209.85.128.0 - 209.85.255.255
216.239.32.0 - 216.239.63.255

put them in peerblock

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:17 pm

firefox plugins like noscript and ghostery are great tools to fish out the analytics crew...

have been using duckduckgo a bit, thanks tazzzz

nice heads up on the google ip's mr garth...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:25 pm

i have those google ranges in a separate list in peerblock, so i can un block if i really need to see a page, and block again. have you seen thier antics with sidestepping privacy on safari and IE?

dont know if this is current...

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
phone: (650) 253-0000
fax: (650) 253-0001

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Mountain%20View%2C%20CA%2094043

...and i dont know what you would use it for Twisted Evil

but if you have something to say its worth a try

this looks like fun!
http://www.jigsaw.com/id215043/1/google_inc_company_directory.xhtml
you start out with 10 points and this cost me 5 points:

Nakul Patel

Senior Marketing Strategist
+1.734.332.6548
nakul@google.com
Google, Inc.

201 S Division St

Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2201

United States
Twisted Evil

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:03 pm

LORD! GARTH! wrote:

have you seen thier antics with sidestepping privacy on safari and IE?

Yeah that's some big balls on Google's part. I filter google-anal.lickers and it's variants at my router. That ways they cant be sidestepping onto my pc without jumping though some hoops in my router.

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:06 pm

Thanks for the heads up and advice.
Not that I really do anything wrong on the net I don't like the idea of a company collecting data on me. I'm going to look into it and most likely delete my old google account (don't know why I set it up anyway). Duckduckgo seems like the way to go these days (pun intended Smile

). Google are getting to big for their boots it seems.
Cheers.

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:38 pm

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:01 pm

Never turned it on Smile

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:34 am

Ok,2 noob questions here:

1) This also refers to the general chrome web history without been logged to any google account?

2) This update cancels previous instructions?
[UPDATE 2/22/2012]: Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information gathered and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.

With Web History enabled, Google will keep these records indefinitely; with it disabled, they will be partially anonymized after 18 months, and certain kinds of uses, including sending you customized search results, will be prevented. If you want to do more to reduce the records Google keeps, the advice in EFF's Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy white paper remains relevant.

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:19 pm

hi folks...

never had a google account

lord G

LORD! GARTH!
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:00 pm

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urchin.js is THE one to block, any other we know of?
and yes urchin is running on the webserver, not on your browser

also the following IP address ranges belong to Google:

64.233.160.0 - 64.233.191.255
66.102.0.0 - 66.102.15.255
66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
72.14.192.0 - 72.14.255.255
74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255
209.85.128.0 - 209.85.255.255
216.239.32.0 - 216.239.63.255

put them in peerblock

are they really that bad...

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 3:34 pm

All urchin.js does is collect information for Google Analytics which website owners use. Everything you do on the web can be traced in some form or another, don't do anything that is illegal and its no issue, you will end up spending half of your time being paranoid about who is seeing what and when.

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:07 pm

thanks trollster.....

"so there may be some body on mars then always watching listening collecting information" welcome to the "twlight zone"

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 6:46 pm

slowdays wrote:

hi folks...

lord G

...

are they really that bad...

i figured since google knows so much about us id help everyone find out as muc as they care to about google Laughing