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Re: [microsound] but wait, there's more



Related to google's data mining practices, there is a firefox extension
which could interest some of the most paranoid among us ;)

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/

I guess if enough people use software such as this one, it could possibly
add a bit of noise to their data. Maybe that's just wishful thinking, given
that the large majority of people wouldn't bother, but at least it wraps
your legitimate google-searches in a bunch of phony (but legitimate-looking)
searches (giving you plausible deniability in case the thought-police comes
for you ^^).

On Jan 30, 2008 5:12 PM, Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> http://puddlegum.net/listening-habits-and-searching-trends/