On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 23:31, Javier Bassi <[email protected]> wrote: > But looking at this with a different angle. Google search performance > over Tor is horrible. Google instant (a so called "feature" that makes > a request with each letter you type and starts giving you results > before you finished typing what you want to search)
Google can also potentially use its “suggest” feature (on which “instant” is based) to deanonymize users: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics. In this sense, users' arguable preference for Google products can be construed as a reason to *not* use Google as a default search engine in privacy-oriented products. I doubt that Google uses keystroke dynamics at the moment, but one should always remember this corporation's official position of disregarding user privacy: — People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they? (Mario Bartiromo, CNBC) — If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. (Eric Schmidt, Google CEO) [Dec. 3, 2009] -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
