Re: I zap Google cookies but it tracks me by IP - what else?

Re: I zap Google cookies but it tracks me by IP - what else?

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Re: I zap Google cookies but it tracks me by IP - what else? Alex Heney 01-20-2006
Posted by Alex Heney on January 20, 2006, 5:51 pm
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4631924.stm
>
>I zap my Google browser cookies but now I learn from the recent news
>that Google tracks every inquiry I made including my IP number. I
>guess there's no way to prevent it.
>
>As I'm on cable and my IP address hasn't changed in months then
>Google can reliably track my interests, habits, preferences, shop
>sites, etc etc. I have nothing to hide but I'm not sure I want
>Google to keep all that data about me.
>

Do you really think they will do so?

>What good alternatives are there to Google as a regular search
>engine?

Quite a few, but I expect they all record very similar details to
Google, and being smaller will have fewer records overall for yours to
be a needle in a haystack.
--
Alex Heney, Global Villager
Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser.
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