Top
Browse > Home / Tech / Hiding from Google

Hiding from Google

November 15, 2005

If you’re getting a little nervous about just how much information the big G is keeping on you, and would rather stay under the radar of the new Google Analytics engine, here’s a simple six step plan for how to install the Adblock extension in Firefox, and use it to keep Google’s new site statistics engine from following you.

Of course so far, it doesn’t look like there’s much danger of that anyway — 30+ hours and I’m still seeing no statistics yet, which is a bit over the 12 hours they told us we’d have to wait… At this rate we may all die of old age before Google has a comprehensive picture of us in its database…

Like this article? Share it!
  • Digg
  • Sphinn
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Mixx
  • Google
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon

Written by Chuck Lawson · Filed Under Tech 
Tags: •

Comments

Got something to say? [privacy policy]





Possibly Related


How To Find MP3’s With GoogleSo how’s your google-foo?  This guide is a relatively comprehensive list of how to use some of Google’s more esoteric search operators to sniff out MP3s that people may have put (or left) online for one reason or another.  "This How-To will teach you how to use google to find mp3s. This How-To will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the wherefores of the various search strings."...


Free Mp3s from GoogleSo how's your google-foo? This guide is a relatively comprehensive list of how to use some of Google's more esoteric search operators to sniff out MP3s that people may have put (or left) online for one reason or another. "This How-To will teach you how to use google to find mp3s. This How-To will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the wherefores of the various search strings."...


Google Reader Wish ListSpeaking of Google Reader, 901 AM (or I guess that's 90.1 AM) has a nice list of Needed Features and Fixes for Google Reader. Most of these are pretty good (although I wonder how small your list of feeds is if you really need a "new story available" pop-up), but the one that really intrigued me was: Solve Overflow Memory Leak Problems: The ability to auto-refresh or just manually refresh your RSS feeds in Google Reader is a great feature, but the downside is you will find all those feeds build up in your session, and if your running Firefox, this can cause some serious memory leaks, if you use it frequently. If I could find a place to turn...


Google Blog Search - Blah.There was a quiver in the blogosphere this morning, and all of a sudden I'm seeing a bunch of articles on Google Blog Search. I just can't figure out why. Maybe I just don't get it, but I'm having difficulty figuring out the actual utility of this thing. I did a couple of dozen searches on topics that I've been looking into lately, and for most of them, the majority of results on the first 3 - 4 pages fell into one of two categories: Scraper/Spam Blogs -- the pests out there that scrape search engine results, other people's RSS feeds, etc. and remix them into strongly keyworded word salad to suck up search engine traffic and send it to...


Serious Money from Google AdSenseIf you're a regular reader of this site, or even take a quick look around, you'll know that I don't make a habit of pitching products here (other than my own teleclasses occasionally), so you can bet that I'm pretty serious about it when I do it. I've got a fair-sized handful of sites (other than this one) that I've put up over the years. About a year ago, I started putting up Google AdSense banners on some of them, hoping to make a buck or two. Like most people, I made a buck or two. Nothing serious; beer money, or enough to pay for hosting (if I wasn't in the hosting business.) I figured that was the norm. In...

Bottom