I second that Ray. I have immediately closed one of my two gmail accounts, but sadly cannot succeed with the second - just too hard ( thanks for the advice Ronni).
I noticed on numerous occasions a small window on the Google site talking about privacy. Frankly its not private and I am opposed to the Orwellian undertones of Google. I have clicked "learn more" and got bogged down in a load of obscure tripe. Scroogle was a darned useful site. There may be others? Bill On 24/02/2012, at 11:52 AM, Ray Forma wrote: > Sadly, as of three days ago Scroogle Scraper is no more. Its owner says that > continual DNS attacks, and blocking from Google, has finally forced them to > discontinue this service. > > Scroogle Scraper allowed you to use Google by proxy, so Google could not > record that a search request came from you. > > I used this service a great deal and will miss it. > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroogle> > > On 23/02/2012, at 10:17 PM, cm wrote: > >> Hi Muggers, >> >> If you have a gmail mail account, you may also have a search history with >> Google. To quote a news aggregator site >> >> "Google's new privacy policy will consolidate all your data at google.com — >> unless you erase it first. And today is your last day to do it. The change >> goes into effect tomorrow. Which is why the helpful folks at EFF have posted >> some simple instructions showing how to delete your web history at Google." >> >> Click on the simple instructions link in the above excerpt and there is an >> easy four step process to delete your web-search history and to pause it so >> it will no longer be collected -- at least not where it is easily accessed. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo > > Regards, > > Ray Forma > Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
