Re: Firefox' privacy mode not so private

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

David Lodge wrote:

> [1] I think we should set up some sort of cookie/LSO bank: everybody puts  
> on a marketing cookie with the same UID, mess up the marketing figures  
> summat rotten :-)

I've wondered in the past about the feasability of doing this for 
ordinary browser cookies for those sites where _you_ do not "need" 
personal identification and may not be comfortable with the back-end 
data aggregation that is otherwise collected on you.

For example, if everyone who likes, say, 50 results/page, all language 
results, no filtering and no query suggestions (i.e. prefers their own 
previous matching searches to appear) in Google (and perhaps uses no 
other Google services that require login) were to share one set of 
Google cookies, etc, etc across other sets of preferences, Google's 
accumulated "search intelligence" would be watered down and your 
privacy would be improved.

Yes, I know you can nuke cookies between sessions or more often as 
suits your personal tastes, but then you have to go and reset several 
settings at Google to get it working usefully, rather than the ugly 
defaults.  A "cookie sharing" service to give you a cookie associated 
with your preferred settings, etc (depending on the site -- I'm just 
using Google as an example here) would somewhat further anonymize you 
and mess with the market value of the data collected behind your back.



Regards,

Nick FitzGerald


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