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Monday, August 21, 2006

TrackMeNot Extension

Scared your search history reveals too much about you? TrackMeNot is a Firefox extension trying to obfuscate your search behavior by adding information noise. From the explanation:

TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. It hides users’ actual search trails in a cloud of indistinguishable ’ghost’ queries, making it difficult, if not impossible, to aggregate such data into accurate or identifying user profiles.

[Thanks Robert Marshall.]

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