XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: invalid@nospam.com   
      
   On 22:13  2 Feb 2016, DevilsPGD wrote:   
      
   > In the last episode of , "Alice J."   
   >  said:   
   >   
   >>Mike Yetto wrote in message   
   >>slrn20160201181337.177.twooffive@may.eternal-september.org:   
   >>   
   >>> Switch to . They don't save search   
   >>> histories.   
   >>>   
   >>> Mike "change your phone's google advertising id more often" Yetto   
   >>   
   >>One problem, on computers anyway, is that the duckduckgo.xml file   
   >>located in the "distribution" directory actually throws you under the   
   >>bus with respect to revealing your operating system!   
   >>   
   >>On Linux, the tattletale duckduckgo.xml file is located in   
   >>/usr/lib/firefox/distribution/searchplugins/locale/   
   >>en-US/duckduckgo.xml   
   >>   
   >>The solution is to remove the line that tattles on your OS.   
   >>   
   >>Does anyone know if the same problem exists on Android?   
   >   
   > Your browser typically indicates it's own version as well as OS data   
   > anyway (unless you manually change it, in which case you've created a   
   > permanent cookie that can be used to track you)   
      
   Browsers like Chrome and Firefox have their own unique ID number which   
   means any site using any Google tool including Analytics can make an   
   association between all the participating sites you visit.   
      
   To say nothing of browser fingerprinting.   
      
   But we are drifting into web anonymity which is a whole big topic of its   
   own and probably dealt with better on those sites which write about it.   
      
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   pamela   
      
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