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Google, you, and your browsing habits...
« on: 2007-12-15 02:42:25 » |
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[Blunderov] I'm touchy about my privacy online. I wouldn't, for instance, want the whole world to know about my predilection for goth porn...oops did I say that out loud? Also, for instance, I wouldn't want my curiosity about the manufacture, care and feeding of nuclear weapons to be interpreted in a bad way by persons who may not be aware of my intrinsically sunny disposition. Far better that these matters remain discreet from any potentially unkind scrutiny is my view...
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/12/14/play-hide-and-seek-with-google-analytics2/
Play hide-and-seek with Google Analytics
Posted Dec 14th 2007 1:00PM by Grant Robertson
Filed under: Security, Google, Search
How much data do you think Google has about you and your browsing habits? Crazy amounts. Scary amounts. Volumes of data that make our veins run cold and keep us awake at night. But, hey, they kinda own the web, right? So what can you do?
Forty One of the most popular 100 sites on the web use Google to track their visitors. As it turns out, it's pretty simple to opt-out of Google Analytics data collection. Blog Boing shows us how, "For the more privacy cautious between us the solution for preventing any site's Google Analytics to record any information on us is quite simple. Just add to your hosts file* the following lines:"
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 *.google-analytics.com
This little "hack" keeps your computer from contacting Google's Analytics data collection servers, thus keeping your data out of Google's incredibly wealthy hands.
Thanks BlogBoing!
Tags: google analytics, GoogleAnalytics, privacy, security, user tracking, UserTracking
*This is probably to be found in the Windowssystem32driversetc folder
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