ISP’s take my privacy and tell me I don’t have a “right” to it. I don’t have anything to hide either, but I don’t like “snoopers”. I think my new cyberspace “best friend I can trust” (besides TC and EB) is Disconnect Search. I found both articles interesting and informative, but just couldn’t connect the dots. Thanks for the duckduckgo clarification, too. I never would have made the VPN/Disconnect Search connection on my own. Left my eyeballs spinning and bouncing like pink pong balls in my skull. I read the VPN article, then did a search and ended up reading about OpenVPN at Wikipedia. Thanks TV for making the connection for us. Private isn’t really private at all.Ĥ thoughts on “ DuckDuckGo and Disconnect Search” Unfortunately, to the sites you visit, to the search engines you use, and to your ISP, private browsing doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t store files on your computer nor keep a history. Chrome has it (Incognito), IE and Firefox has it – so why not just use private browsing instead of something like Disconnect Search or DuckDuckGo? The answer is simply this: Private browsing is only private it to you. But I bet that the people who say they don’t care who sees what they’re doing online, have curtains or blinds on their living room windows, even though they’re doing nothing but watching TV or reading.Īnd a little overview about so-called private browsing. I am certain those who claim they’re not doing anything wrong, would not like people watching them through the windows of their homes even if they were just reading or watching TV. Those who say they have nothing to hide and don’t care what their ISP records are actually encouraging the continuing erosion of our individual rights to privacy. Where they sell it in the aggregate (most likely) or by customer (not likely) it’s valuable stuff and valuable stuff tends to get sold. In my opinion, it’s only a matter of time before they start selling this information to advertisers and companies who want to sell us services or things. I really don’t think most people understand that ISPs record everything their customers do online – and how long they keep this information varies from ISP to ISP, but you can be assured it’s for a period of years. Your ISP has no business knowing what you’re doing on the Internet, any more than the gas company has any business knowing how you’re using the natural gas you buy from them…or the electric company needing to know how you use the electricity you buy from them. So it’s different and even more private than DuckDuckGo - although using DuckDuckGo with Disconnect Search, would be excellent □ This will not, of course, circumvent NSA surveillance □ but hopefully, none of us have to worry about the NSA. If that server keeps no records or logs of your access, then your privacy is pretty much assured. When you’re using a VPN all your ISP knows (and logs) is that you are connected to a VPN server in Miami, but - assuming the VPN server keeps no logs - the trail would end there and anything you did (searching, downloading, etc.) would be seen only by the VPN server. So you may appear to be from Los Angeles, when you’re really in Miami…or London or, Papeete, Tahiti (like EB). Your true IP address is changed and all your ISP or search engine sees is the Virtual Private Network IP address. Disconnect Search ( see our article here and in the tips section of this newsletter) creates an instant VPN connection when you search, regardless of your choice of search engine. Am I correct? If not, how do they differ in function? Apparently, Disconnect Search will make other search engines operate like duckduckgo. But often I use Google as a comparison or on the chance that it will add to my search results. I’ve been successfully using for many of my searches. Muriel wants to know how Disconnect Search differs from DuckDuckGo
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