epi0Bauqu you may want to add DDG to Firefox's list of search engines (drop down search engine box, manage search engines, get search engines):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search-engines/
Didn't see it there.
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#22This is definitely a killer niche to fill given the current privacy conscious climate [around here]. Kudos.
"Privacy conscious climate"? Are we using the same Internet? (The one with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc...)
By privacy conscious I mean users - specifically us techy users (where there is a lot of privacy debate currently going on)
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#23epi0Bauqu you may want to add DDG to Firefox's list of search engines (drop down search engine box, manage search engines, get search engines): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search-engines/ Didn't see it there.
Go to http://duckduckgo.com and click "Add To Firefox" at the bottom.
*Edit: Just kidding, that's not what you meant. Leaving this comment for those who don't know where to add DDG to their Firefox search engines.
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#24I noticed you're running your own servers. What kind of setup do you have? How many machines? Are the machines literally sitting in your garage or are you colo'ing somewhere?
Not asking because of privacy, just curious about the technology. If you've answered these questions already somewhere, sorry!
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#25How is the legal situation in US? Aren't web services forced to keep records?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Right, that's tracking everything the browser outputs, not just the user agent, which is maybe 1% of the full string.
Given that IE seems to include all the installed programs on your computer in the UA, I would have thought there's quite a lot of info. I've seen some really long IE UA strings, including all versions of .NET installed, InfoPath, random stuff for adding smilies to emails (really!), and so on.
Combine that with a few other hints, and you've got something interesting.
Maybe you could distill it to a very simple description, like IE6 or FF3.5? I wouldn't have thought you'd want to drop knowing which browsers your users are using.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Right, that's tracking everything the browser outputs, not just the user agent, which is maybe 1% of the full string.
I did an experiment and turned off javascript and redid the test... it still is unique enough to track a browsing session. Give it a try.
I would consider using Duck Duck Go if nothing was logged. Right now I use another service precisely because they don't log anything.
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#28I have duckduckgo set as my default search engine in Firefox. Does anyone know how I can make it use SSL? In other words, make it use https://duckduckgo.com instead of http://duckduckgo.com .
In chrome you just add an 's' in the URL in your default search engine settings.