Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

this is going intresting :D surely cia nsa will have a look at this thread :D

Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

Still you should check if somehow your son didn't use the sync option or you are sharing somehow the same account. On routers all your computers get an internal IP inside the router but the outside IP is the same for all of them. Maybe google detects that the other machine didn't have the updated cookie (with your search queries) and downloaded when the other computer connected to the network.

Also is your son using his own Google account (for Google Play for example) or is he using your account (maybe to BUY apps or stuff like that)?

Please try to reproduce the problems and check each and every sync option. Better it would be to post some screenshots with the problem!

P.S. I never quoted your post, when I was discussing about DDG and stuff like that I was discussing with the rest of the users here.

If you want your son not to be exposed to stuff not intended for his eyes here is the best solution:

• Open up your router configuration and check which internal IP was given to him.
• Go to DHCP setting and add a custom rule for his ip to switch from dynamic to static (so he would always have this inside the network).
• Add custom rules with bad websites that you know he could visit, or you visited and you don't want him to visit.
• Set those custom rules only for that static IP and your kid is safe.

Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

No, he never has used the machine, only I have user account on this laptop.

Also, I never use his Nexus, altough I have created a google account for him on it.

I will have to try to test this again.

Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

So, i'm pretty sure, after the creation of the account, Google logged you in automatically, or you logged in to test the account and did not log out.

When your son starts Chrome on his Android device he is logged in by default.

I just want to make clear, that the reason why this happens is not based on IP, it's based on cookies. So when using services like Google or FB, never forget to log out, it can have really ugly side-effects.

And in general: setting the browser to delete all cookies, when closing is a good advice, i think.

Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

Google/fb dont care if you are logged in or not, they read your cookies and connects you to your account anyway.

Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

Google can very well distinguish between a "domestic" IP or a "school" or "business ip". Those RIPE-lists are public. They know you're connecting from a home.

THANK YOU! Thanks to this thinking I can browse the web without being tracked (well, by commercial entities at least) with ease!

Imagine if the majority would use privacy-enhancing software, would use decentralized social media, would use the likes of ddg, sp or ixquick, then the advertising industry undoubtedly would take much more / even more elusive and harder-to-filter measurements to track and spy on people. Now, all I have to do is install Ghostery.

So please, do continue! Continue disregarding the effectiveness of statistics, so your surprisingly and ever increasingly accurate profile can be sold off to the highest bidder! Continue to being influenced by marketeers which try to manipulate you in ever more clever ways! Continue to think those companies make you such a great offer which will practically costs them money but will improver your life! The more people which think like you, the less marketeers will "need" me, the less they will try to know me, the less they bother me.

Marketers might not get interested in you, but what about governments? Maybe in the sea of "nothing-to-hide's" you'll look like you have something to hide. And as those of us who value privacy get fewer and fewer it *will* be easy to be scrutinized more and more.

And it's impressive what interests or actions might be considered questionable.

I think I want to travel back to the 80's... I might even buy a walkman.


Edit: Btw, TheoX, how do you think communism stayed there so long?

Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

It's not the point whether you have or do not have something to hide. The point is, governments tend to have an interest in their subjects that goes way beyond them being brave citizens, tax payers and consumers.

What is the point then, you may ask? Well, that point is: It's nobodies business what I do with my life, beit online or offline.

You want to share everything you do? Please, go ahead. But leave me out of having to watch your activities. And neither would I appreciate to become part of the surveillance pool of the authorities because people say "that they have nothing to hide" and there fore it's OK to spy on everyone...

Did you check the youtube link I posted?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

It should be noted that Startpage will not allow searching if you have a blank user agent:

As it has been shown that the user agent is a form of identifying information, one does wonder why a privacy oriented search engine requires it. Especially since they claim not to track it (and a bot could easily forge such information so it couldn't be used to stop automated queries).

However, it doesn't change the fact that that's certainly true.

Re: Just discovered a breach of security with google
 

Now this looks fishy and makes me think of duckduckgo.com but the serach doesn't give good results... and again I start moving in circles :)