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21.01.10 07:56
Now an independent security researcher who goes by the name Moxie Marlinspike is making Web users a counter-offer: Take Google's giveaways and keep your privacy too. On Tuesday, Marlinspike launched a service he calls Googlesharing, a plug-in for Firefox designed to give users access to Google's online offerings while cloaking their identity from the
company's data collection tools. By hosting a proxy server with a collection of Google "identities," the privacy software, which can be accessed atGooglesharing.
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"Each identity looks like a normal user, but everything is mixed up between identities so Google can't track any individual," says Marlinspike. That means users can exploit any of Google's offerings that don't require logins, such as search, maps or news, without allowing Google to assemble a profile of their activities that can be used for advertising targeting--or, as some users might fear, information that could be subpoenaed by government investigators.