Googles Proxy

[sakthibruce]

Google announced uproxy for anonymity also for against internet censorship

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/21/google-ideas-uproxy/

[proxx]

Well how about that, the company that gives away private data like cookies is suddenly privacy aware?
Am I the only one confused here ?

Maybe this is an even better way of tracking users, I know for one thing that they would like to get rid of cookies because its not really suitable for ads anymore.
Im sceptical.

[sakthibruce]

I totally agree with you. 

[I_Learning_I]

When it comes to proxys and VPN's... never go legit.
Just some Nigerian proxy is good.

[Resistor]

Fuck Google. If users want a similar function on a search engine that respects privacy, use https://www.ixquick.com imo. It's not hosted in the U.S., and check out their privacy policy and compare it to Google's.

[proxx]

starpage.com is a brother if ixquick and has better results imo.
I dont use anything else really.
A lot of request results in a ban though , pretty annoying because I never scaped myself to death.
Just seems to happen.

[hackingqacc]

Well how about that, the company that gives away private data like cookies is suddenly privacy aware?
Am I the only one confused here ?

Maybe this is an even better way of tracking users, I know for one thing that they would like to get rid of cookies because its not really suitable for ads anymore.
Im sceptical.

That was exactly what I was going to say. When I saw the title I thought this was about Google translate working as a proxy. Google should know well enough that one proxy is useless even if they aren't giving your data away.

starpage.com is a brother if ixquick and has better results imo.
I dont use anything else really.
A lot of request results in a ban though , pretty annoying because I never scaped myself to death.
Just seems to happen.

What is the actual difference between the StartPage and Ixquick? Besides looking nicer, giving the NSA your data, and having ads from the info they tracked on you StartPage is better then Google. It even already has a proxy built in, Ixquick Proxy.

[Resistor]

The difference is StartPage produces Google's search results, (and has a much simpler name, and lacks it's own proxy, but uses ixquick's), whereas ixquick is a meta search engine, and has it's own proxy.

[hackingqacc]

Thank you, that makes sense. 

[lucid]

Well how about that, the company that gives away private data like cookies is suddenly privacy aware?

That's the first thing I thought of as well.