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Search Page I Started Using.

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Ixquick

10 Ways Ixquick Helps You Take Back Your Privacy


Basically, they don't track anything and keep google (as they are piggybacking off of their search engine) from tracking your browsing.
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Wasn't the NSA supposedly working on compromising SSL? I'd be willing to bet that the NSA can watch your searches on this site just fine...

My solution: stop living under the illusion that you have any privacy and live a clean life so they don't have any reason to come after you.
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snoopy wrote:...stop living under the illusion that you have any privacy...
Pretty well said. This is the Internet after all, there's no such thing as real 'privacy' here.

The privacy... Is a lie. :P
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Personally I don’t give a damn who tracks me where…but that damn bubble gets on my nerves.
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snoopy wrote:Wasn't the NSA supposedly working on compromising SSL? I'd be willing to bet that the NSA can watch your searches on this site just fine...

My solution: stop living under the illusion that you have any privacy and live a clean life so they don't have any reason to come after you.
They probably can't break SSL encryption itself, but I wouldn't be surprised if they possessed rogue SSL certificates. Something like this would help with that:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... te-patrol/
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Jeff250 wrote:...rogue SSL certificates.
No need, if they can get the master in many cases:

Feds put heat on web firms for master encryption keys
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