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I had few problems with Google in the last months. Java2me.org wordpress instance has been hacked by an hacker inserting some iframes on my blog posts, I had to remove them all (btw, if you had the same problem, it’s easy to identify them with a “SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_content like ‘%iframe%’”, I thought also to add a cron job on the server, just to monitor the situation…) and then I had to submit the site to google few times, since I was marked as a bad boy.

It took me ages to be reviewed again and Java2Me.Org is still considered bad, then I moved here and I put on the old website a permanent redirect. Surprise, now google says that this site is related to that one and it’s dangerous too. Fantastic.

Once a upon a time the web was a free place, where you can put any s*t on, now you need the Big G approval. Great, thanks for the service but I didn’t asked for it.

We all just rely on Google as we used to rely on Microsoft years ago, now it’s just worse.

Not related to this post, but just to make me feel less angry with this situation few tools to distract the big G-brother:

TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one’s tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with the Firefox Browser and popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN) and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.

Did you know that every Google search you make is recorded and archived by the company?

Privacy-minded folks point out that as Google has become part of our everyday lives, our tastes and preferences on the net give away a lot more than we’d normally share with a stranger, let alone a corporation with nearly 14,000 employees worldwide.

While Google keeps your search terms until 2038, the folks at Scroogle delete the logs after 48 hours and vow to keep no cookies. What’s better is the search uses Google’s own technology. In technospeak, it randomly generates an IP number (the thing that allows your computer to be ID’d) and sends your request off to Google. When Google responds, it shows you the search results. Hence the name, as it “scrapes” the search engine giant to get results.

Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.