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Google's new privacy policy - Holly


Posted: Mar 01, 2012

Now that Google has implemented its new privacy policy, do you still use it to research medical terms?

NOPE! - AbsolutelyNOT

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As of today, I stay off of both Google and GooTube.

I am using Start Page as my search engine. SP does not save any info about you and allows you to search by proxy. Another good one is Scroogle, but lately Google has been blocking access by Scroogle servers so I have pretty much scrapped that one.

If you don't log in to any Google account - sm

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your data will not be associated with you. It only associates information with an actual person when the person is logged in to a Google service. If you just use Google's search function without logging into something like gmail or Google+, you're still anonymous.

I don't like the data-mining they do for advertisers, - but why would I not look up meds on it?

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Yeah, I might get some emails trying to sell me Viagra or the latest weight reduction pill, but if I'm just looking up drug dosages or something, and not the specs for making fertilizer bombs, then what's to worry about?

Switch to DuckDuckGo - Be Safe

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I looked at different search engines and ended up using DuckDuckGo.com. It works every bit as well as Google does.


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