Hate Google, Is there an alternative that repects privacy ?

rufydoofyM

eeyore123 wrote: »

:rotfl: and that's been proved with PRISM. OP you'll know if you've been successfully tracked when the GCHQ party van shows up on your drive

21Twinkle wrote: »

They are waiting for you - they KNOW that you have already been asking questions ...
They know EVERYTHING (they have tracked your ip address down and are currently engaged in paying off your ISP to give them your home address) - don't answer your phone tonight, close your curtains, don't switch on your lights - sit there, worrying that the morning may not come soon enough !!

I'll be ready with tea and cookies :rotfl:

bluesnake wrote: »

Not good news. The Americans definitely know where you live! Can you hear choppers circling yet? Seen that Kim Dotcom video? On the plus side, Guantanamo Bay is lovely this time of year, although the accommodation is a bit cramped


The best I've got is Tails on a vm, booting a live iso, which gives 1 in 14352, but as more use it, this number will drop a bit. Also by dragging my screen to make it wider made me instantly unique

Tor bundle, which I thought would be the best as I would have thought the most common, and as it is so easy to use, gave 1 in 76545

There is a prize for the lowest score - a keep out jail card/freedom

I have no idea what any of this means. For me privacy is more a matter of principle than having anything to hide and going to such lengths to preserve my privacy sounds rather complicated and beyond me at present.

rufydoofyM

Just did the test and got this score

But I don't understand it, can someone explain what it means please:) Thanks M

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,985,547 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.51 bits of identifying information.

bluesnake

rufydoofyM wrote: »

Just did the test and got this score

But I don't understand it, can someone explain what it means please:) Thanks M

Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,985,547 tested so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 21.51 bits of identifying information.

Browsers gives out information. So far the site has been visited by 2,985,547 computers. Of all those computers yours stands out, and there is no other other one out of the 2,985,547 it has seen so far that generates the same values as yours, making it unique.

This makes your PC easily traceable and you can be targeted accordingly even without cookies and java.

That web page has a table below which tells you how you were identified.

If you would read the page, there is a link that if you click it opens up this page linked here https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf

spenderdave

Since this uniqueness test includes things like the fonts and plugins (and version) installed on your computer it is almost guaranteed to be unique. If you install a new program that adds a new font or update something like Flash player that also updates the plugin you will then become a different 'unique' computer. The suggestion that a computer can be reliably identified by this sort of information is cloud cuckoo land.

rufydoofyM

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Is this fact or just your personal belief please ?

penrhyn

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Interesting

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

penrhyn wrote: »

rufydoofyM



Interesting

Where "near" translates to about 200 miles in my case.

penrhyn

Information, Information.
You won't get it
By hook or by crook we will.




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buglawton

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MichaelDoherty

The days of privacy and anonymity are long gone. We just have to accept it.