On 11/18/2009 4:17 AM, Jim wrote:
Google was actually the motivating factor in causing me to get serious
about overcoming whatever problem I had when I first tried to use Tor.
Although my concern at the time was more the ubiquity of
google-analytics. But still concerned about using their search engine.
My problem was that (for quite a while now), when I try to do a search
on Google via Tor, more often than not Google calls me a virus and tells
me to go away ("unusual network activity" or some such). My solution
has been to connect to Scroogle via Tor. I am not nearly as anti-Google
as the guy (people?) who run Scroogle and I don't mind the unobtrusive
right column adds on Google search results. Its just my (usual)
inability to use Google directly w/o dropping anonymity.
There's another relatively easy solution to the Analytics part - surf
with a plugin like Firefox's NoScript installed, and forbid
google-analytics.com from ever running scripts. Boom, no more
analytics, I believe NoScript won't even allow Firefox to fetch the code
from the URL, so they don't even get the hit (note: I haven't actually
confirmed that part explicitly). Plus you get a ton of other safety
benefits from browsing the web with scripting off by default, and the
various other nasty things like clickjacking and XSS that NoScript
attempts to block.