On 02/05/2016 01:37 AM, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2016-02-04 at 11:11 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
Not only is it https, it promises to keep no records of your searches
or even your IP
Do you believe that? Or anything said to you about a website's aims?
And even if it is a true statement, it's only valid *then*. They may do
something else next week.
I don't know if they're going to keep their promise or not, but I've got
more important things to worry about. Spending my life obsessing over
how to be perfectly safe from every possible threat has never appealed
to me especially when you consider how many things we can't protect
ourselves from. People in Florida have to worry about hurricanes every
year. In the Midwest it's tornadoes, in the north it's snow storms.
Where I live it's brush fires and earthquakes. Somehow, being afraid
that some search engine is going to sell my search history doesn't seem
like it's worth losing any sleep over. I do what I can, but it doesn't
bother me that there's only so much I can do. And, to be honest, I
neither spend that much time searching nor do I spend much time looking
for things to buy, so again, it's not that big a deal for me. YMMV, and
if you want to put more effort into hiding your searches than I do, go
right ahead. If you're that worried, do all of your searching at a
library or Starbucks using a LiveUSB so that not only isn't there a
trail to your IP, your browser history vanishes when you reboot.
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