Am 27.01.2012 07:57, schrieb Dale: > Dale wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I ran across this news item about Google: >> >> http://alturl.com/s7xi5 >> >> The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google >> since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next >> they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf. I found a >> search engine that may work. It is here: >> >> www.ixquick.com >> >> Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I do >> like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool. >> [...] > > OK. This has gotten a LOT of replies with lots of interesting info. I > have another question along the same lines. What about using a VPN? I > been messing with tor and Firefox but if I try to watch a video or > something that has any length to it, it gets rather iffy. I found this: > > www.vpn4all.com > > I don't think it works with Linux but it was interesting to read about > just for the information. From my understanding, people can't read your > traffic and they can't tell anything about you as far as location. I > know google can do this because when I type in certain things, it all > comes up for local stuff. If I do the same in Firefox with tor turned > on, it gets rather weird. Stuff from Africa was showing up one time and > later on it looked like German stuff. When I checked my IP and did a > whois, it was in other countries. > > What are thoughts on this sort of thing? Anything better than tor out > there? Am I getting paranoid or do people really watch us and collect > data on us? :/ > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
Well, to summarize it: It solves the following problems: - Your ISP cannot snoop or manipulate your traffic (useful for mobile connections which normally compress images, for example) - Your IP no longer maps directly to you - IP geolocation no longer works reliably It does not solve this problem: - Your browser+cookies still identify you It creates this new problem: - The VPN provider sees all your traffic and your IP (in this regard it is worse than Tor because with Tor, the endpoint sees your traffic and the start point your IP but neither sees both) Regards, Florian Philipp
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