Comments on: Track Me Not Firefox Extension

By: James

James — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:43:37 +0000

Hmm… Excellent idea. This tool could be very useful at school. The school district logs all ip traffic, but manually sifting through massive log files isn’t a very practical way to find hackers. 10 searches per minute isn’t quite frequent enough to hide from active logging. 30 – 60 searches per minute might be more effective. An ability to generate random http traffic would also be useful. Perhaps a user could set it to actually download the top result of a search? Kudos to whoever designed TMN. Keep up the good work!

By: HookaMega

HookaMega — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:05:55 +0000

Many people fail to see the adverse effects this tool could have for website owners. Imagine hundreds of thousands of internet users running this tool. Over time these queries will have an adverse affect on the information alot of us use to help plan our search engine marketing. Keywords! The search data collected by search engines is also used to help determine what words or phrases people are using to find information on the web. If you throw a few million bogus searches into the mix everyday then the same data we use to help enhance our sites so that searchers can find it will be inaccurate and not so usefull. I think the best defence against preventing your search habits from being collected and attached to your identity is to avoid using ISP’s that require you to log into some proprietary software to gain access to the internet through a proprietary network like AOL and Netzero to name a few. An IP address and an internet connection is all you need, at that point any standard browser will give you access to any resource on the net just the same without the ability to associate the sites you visit or the things you search for with your personal information.

By: gnome

gnome — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:26:05 +0000

Smart & another weapon against the invasion of our digital rights! Great find!