GOOGLE LAUNCHED A BEHAVORIAL TARGETING AD PROGRAM

[jturning]

If you want to avoid being tracked by Google and their new add program, here you go. I'm not sure I like the plugin option, but I like the tracking even less. Another option I use is Privoxy which prevents many adds from displaying along with grabbing the cookies. There is a more advanced options where you can specify cookies be session only, have some allowed (like forums here), deny them altogether.... Great project that makes using the web nicer. Privoxy should be available through package management for most distros, a Slackbuild is available for Slackware.

http://www.privoxy.org/

* GOOGLE LAUNCHED A BEHAVORIAL TARGETING AD PROGRAM this
week, which it calls "interest-based advertising." EFF is
concerned about behavioral targeting, because it means that
information about how you use the web is collected, stored
and associated with a cookie on your browser, which can
track you across different websites and online services.
The program'soriginal opt-out option -- using cookies to
opt-out of tracking cookies -- was not adequate, because
the very users who care most about privacy are the ones
most likely to delete cookies, thus removing them from the
opt-out protection.

We worked with Google to seek a new solution, and the
result is the Advertising Cookie Opt-Out Plug-in, which
allows users to keep their opt-out status for a particular
browser even when they clear all cookies. If you are a user
who shares our concerns about privacy, we encourage you to
opt-out of tracking by downloading the plug-in and keep
regularly deleting your cookies.

For the full post:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/03/go ... ad-program

Plugin:
http://www.google.com/PRIVOXY-FORCE/ads ... es/plugin/

Bugz

[eddie]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=op ... tnG=Search

[MattKingUSA]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=op ... tnG=Search

You use google to search for open source search engines?