Comments on: New Google data retention plan http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16949 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:43:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Graychin http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16949/comment-page-1#comment-768193 Graychin Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:42:59 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16949#comment-768193 If you want to make it more difficult for Google to track your internet activity, set your browser to refuse "cookies" from the Google domain (google.com in the USA). I did this at least three years ago, and I have no problems with the results of my searches. On the contrary, I think that I get fewer targeted ads because they don't have my search history handy in a cookie to use for targeting me. I suppose that Google will continue to log my searches by linking them to my IP address, but since my IP address changes from time to time their dossier on me can only exist in disassociated chunks that would be tedious to put back together. If you want to make it more difficult for Google to track your internet activity, set your browser to refuse “cookies” from the Google domain (google.com in the USA). I did this at least three years ago, and I have no problems with the results of my searches. On the contrary, I think that I get fewer targeted ads because they don’t have my search history handy in a cookie to use for targeting me.

I suppose that Google will continue to log my searches by linking them to my IP address, but since my IP address changes from time to time their dossier on me can only exist in disassociated chunks that would be tedious to put back together.

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