It is a known event that Google tracks searches if you are logged into your account. I'm wondering what is the extent of their tracking searches if you do not have an account?Obviously one way to do it would be to put a cookie in you computer. the next question is how to get rid of it. Since I always use "private browsing mode" in Firefox I don't show any cookies available to delete.

Everything you do is logged by your ISP. Private mode only removes history cache and cookies which is local. That has no bearing on what your ISP sees or any web site you visit.Short of a VPN or HTTPS connection everything you do is visible not only to Google but your isp and many websites if you enable cookies.

Logged by your ISP and likely the NSA. :)You could try the TOR browser from https://www.torproject.orgSupposed to have some pretty tight encryption. Spap

Spappy wrote:Logged by your ISP and likely the NSA. :)You could try the TOR browser from https://www.torproject.orgSupposed to have some pretty tight encryption. Spaptorproject is interesting concept, but would one really want to become part of this network of bouncing a bunch of other folks ip addresses around. Maybe very safe and may well become the wave of the future for privacy.

The NSA already knows you visit RV.net.

Shared cookies or objects can track your activities from multiple websites, and can also be used to identify specific computers. Google and Yahoo explicitly claim to also scan all emails for marketing purposes. But so do virtually all other free email providers. Necessary for auto spam/malware detection purposes. You just have to take their word that they are not collecting the data for marketing?Among popular extensions for privacy or tracking for Firefox, I use Self-Destructing Cookies, which limits cookies to a particular website. Then destroys them when you leave the site by closing the tab so cannot be used for cross site tracking.However, you may want to green light some websites to save cookies such as RV.NET, to avoid having to re-log in to your account to post each time you return.Besides privacy concerns, you can potentially improve security by looking at the free HTTPS Everywhere.

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CC_Crabman
Explorer
Feb 10, 2014
The NSA already knows you visit RV.net.
dryfly
Explorer
Feb 10, 2014
Spappy wrote:
Logged by your ISP and likely the NSA. :)

You could try the TOR browser from https://www.torproject.org
Supposed to have some pretty tight encryption.

Spap

torproject is interesting concept, but would one really want to become part of this network of bouncing a bunch of other folks ip addresses around. Maybe very safe and may well become the wave of the future for privacy.
Spappy
Explorer
Feb 10, 2014
Logged by your ISP and likely the NSA. :)

You could try the TOR browser from https://www.torproject.org
Supposed to have some pretty tight encryption.

Spap
Aridon
Explorer
Feb 10, 2014
Everything you do is logged by your ISP. Private mode only removes history cache and cookies which is local. That has no bearing on what your ISP sees or any web site you visit.

Short of a VPN or HTTPS connection everything you do is visible not only to Google but your isp and many websites if you enable cookies.

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