ReneKMueller.com: Computer Diary

Here my little rant and praise place, where the daily experiences of my programming work are expressed. I publish them with the idea that others might find it useful and benefit from it.

2009/03/12
Google - The Almighty Tracker & Advertising Blocking
last edited 2009/03/24 07:10
I use gmail.com as main email backend, access it via IMAP and let all my domains forward email there were I filter it into several folders (tagged). When I use the search engine google.com, I'm tracked, every search I do is stored and tied to my identity as a browser-cookie is set on my computer revealing me to Google mail and its search engine . . . today I made the decision not to use the gmail.com web-frontend anymore, and put google.com and google.ch into the browser cookie blacklist, so no cookie from google.com|.ch is stored anymore. I access my email with Thunderbird (on FreeBSD, Linux and MacOSX) and IMAP protocoll.
I also run AdBlock Plus for Firefox 3.0 (which I currently use, but otherwise prefere Opera because of the smaller memory footprint), so there most of the ads aren't shown and therefore no cookie neither tracking my IP is possible.
Tags: Google, Big Brother, GMail, AdBlock Plus, Firefox, IMAP, Thunderbird | Permalink

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MacOS-X for a UNIX Man with a PC (2009/09/26 18:43)
Windows XP for a UNIX Man (2009/09/22 16:28)
Server Counting (2009/05/18 09:50)
Automatically Geotag Photos without GPS (2009/04/22 06:28)
Rebirth of FastCGI (2009/04/15 15:17)
Online Advertisement & Income for Web-Site Owners (2009/03/18 21:10)
iPhone JavaScript Frameworks (aka Avoiding Objective-C) (2009/03/14 21:08)
Google - The Almighty Tracker & Advertising Blocking (2009/03/12 21:09)
How To Save 300MB RAM (2009/03/07 21:07)
Verbosity of Programming Languages (2009/03/06 21:06)
Problems with MacOSX (2009/03/03 21:03)
MacOSX: My First Steps (2009/02/24 08:57)
Catch 22 with HDD/DVD Recorder Medion Life (2009/02/24 08:27)
Kubuntu 8.1 as guest on VirtualBox MacOSX host (2009/02/24 00:33)
VirtualBox vs VMWare Fusion on MacOSX (2009/02/24 00:19)
SQL vs GREP with 230K lines (12MB) GeoLite (2009/02/23 19:10)
Kubuntu 8.1: Eye-Candy & Memory Waste (2009/01/24 08:57)
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