ThoughtCrime protects users from Big Brother Google

Posted by Trent Nouveau


"[Google] knows who your friends are, where you live, where you work, and where you spend your free time. They know about your health, your love life, and your political leanings," the site explained in an official statement.

ThoughtCrime protects users from Big Brother Google"[So], GoogleSharing...ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent Google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit."

As such, GoogleSharing - which consists of a custom proxy and a Firefox add-on - is designed to "confuse" the popular search engine by "mixing" the requests of multiple users together.

Indeed, the FF add-on monitors requests to Google services from a user's browser and redirects them (except Gmail) to a GoogleSharing proxy.

The request is subsequently stripped of all identifying information and replaced with information from a GoogleSharing identity.

