phil ringnalda

While I do understand the seriousness of the recently reopened question of Google’s cookie being a real privacy problem, at an individual level it just isn’t that big a deal, if you are using a browser from this century. In Phoenix, I just opened Tools -> Preferences -> Privacy, clicked Manage Cookies, checked the Don’t allow removed cookies to be reaccepted later box, and then deleted Google’s cookie. I certainly don’t have a strong enough need to have any Google preferences saved to make me want to let them track my searches for pr0n dissenting political opinions. If they want to store every IP address + query pair, and let someone with police powers combine that with an ISP’s records of who was using that IP at a particular time, I can’t stop them, but I don’t feel like letting them use my computer to cut out the ISP middleman.