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Will this not be counterproductive, i.e. distribute your personal data to even more websites? By the way, I once got blocked by Google after installing a plugin that did automatic random searches in the background.
Maybe install it in a different profile ?
I've been thinking about building something similar since the first Snowden leaks. I figured encrypted traffic to various locations would be useful considering that security agencies store everything until they can decrypt it at a later date. Unfortunately I'm not well-versed enough in implementing proper encryption and I'd probably just end up shooting myself in the foot. Has anyone else ever thought about doing thi…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14003270 :)
Turns out it's only for Chrome, and the front page doesn't even mention this. Could we at least change the HN title from "A browser plugin..." to "A Chrome plugin..."?
I suspect these folks are just going to use my email for more of the same as the marketers . . .
I guess I could register a "burner" email that is useless except for Noiszy . . . .
Distributed spidering for a community-fed search engine index would provide comparable end-user benefits while being considerably more socially useful.
That is an awesome idea - a browser that is also a node in a search engine; it would be possible to build an experimental search engine then without a £40 million + investment to even get started.
Distributed spidering for a community-fed search engine index would provide comparable end-user benefits while being considerably more socially useful.
It's a nice marketing stunt -- not meant to be perjorative, I hope it inspires more innovation in this space. But I find it ironic that a plugin that purports to make it harder to track you has google analytics.