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Re: Become Ungoogleable

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Post by [deleted] »

toast0 wrote: post #5
AlbertCory wrote: post #3

I thought the method was to change your name to something extremely common, like "Janet Brown." A variant is to take the name of some celebrity, so that all the search results are for him or her.

This works. I have the same name as a Pulitzer prize winning author, and it's pretty hard to find me by name. And since I've mostly worked at popular user-facing companies, searching for my name + employer just has stuff about him with share links that use my employer's services. Well except for the guy with my name in Florida who got arrested in connection with using my employer's service. What's not fun is hearing…

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Re: Become Ungoogleable

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Post by shiftpgdn »

fooyc wrote: post #7
superkuh wrote: post #2

It's a fine idea. But what I'm taking away from this post is the link to the Google/Chromium web DRM prototype and summary ... yikes. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environ... >- The web page executing in a user's web browser >- A third party that can “attest” to the device a web browser is executing on, referred to as the attester >- The web developers server which can remotely verify attestati…

Google would do anything to make it harder for others to crawl the web. Killing RSS was part of that strategy. News sites will implement these DRMs, but of course they will still allow Google because it is their source of traffic. Alternative search engines and good bots will be locked out.

Not just Google, Cloudflare is working hard on it too.

Re: Become Ungoogleable

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Post by twelve40 »

disappointed, title hints at how to become ungoogleable as a person, was hoping to see something like the right to be forgotten which doesn't work in the US and would be useful, but instead just a bunch of whining and deindexing a website, nothing new.

Re: Become Ungoogleable

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Post by twelve40 »

AlbertCory wrote: post #3

I thought the method was to change your name to something extremely common, like "Janet Brown." A variant is to take the name of some celebrity, so that all the search results are for him or her.

Michael Jackson sounds pretty good too, there is him and then some VC dude apparently

Re: Become Ungoogleable

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Post by [deleted] »

twelve40 wrote: post #14

disappointed, title hints at how to become ungoogleable as a person, was hoping to see something like the right to be forgotten which doesn't work in the US and would be useful, but instead just a bunch of whining and deindexing a website, nothing new.

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Re: Become Ungoogleable

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Post by exlurker »

twelve40 wrote: post #15
AlbertCory wrote: post #3

I thought the method was to change your name to something extremely common, like "Janet Brown." A variant is to take the name of some celebrity, so that all the search results are for him or her.

Michael Jackson sounds pretty good too, there is him and then some VC dude apparently

I wonder if Michael Jackson would have even more success with his beer guides if he chose a pseudonym. https://www.beerbooks.com/cgi/ps4.cgi?action=enter&thispage=...

Re: Become Ungoogleable

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Post by epolanski »

Aurornis wrote: post #8

> Nobody really expects to be able to find anything of value in a Google search now This is a categorically false premise. The kind of statement that only makes sense when you're in a deep bubble and entirely removed from the average person's use of the internet. Deliberately removing yourself from Google is fine for the author who is more concerned about taking an ideological stance than they are about being discove…

I guess it is kinda true for the author, average person isn't looking for his content and his public will find other ways.
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