PrivacyFinder.org: Search, but with Privacy

EFF Article here.

PrivacyFinder.org is an interesting search project that puts the kind of emphasis on privacy that's been missing, according to this profile by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

-- Tom

 

Big search engines are really nasty entities when they compile user data that should be completely off limits.

 

The link in the article details how all of this works.

The AOL example is a poor one because customers using AOL search would automatically be assigned a number. Avoiding the AOL (or any ISP) search engine would nullify the threat.

The other examples all require that the user either establish a personal account, and/or set a cookie:

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rich