Fluffeh writes:
According to TorrentFreak, Google is downranking The Pirate Bay's website in its search results for a wide variety of queries, some of which are not linked to copyright-infringing content. Interestingly, the change mostly seems to affect TPB results via the Google.com domain, not other variants such as Google.ca and Google.co.uk.
It also seems that Google may only be downranking searches that are explicitly looking for copyright-infringing content, not searches that are simply looking for The Pirate Bay itself. It will be interesting to see whether this is a backhanded effort to appease the media companies, or a taste of things to come to all the Google domains.
(Score: 1) by dilbert on Thursday February 27 2014, @08:36PM
FYI, Ghostery does let you opt out of the data collection but I'm always looking for more effective/freedom respecting tools. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll have to check out Disconnect (+1 over Ghostery for being open source).
The VM is running Mint 16 'Petra'. Once everything is properly configured, the snapshot can be in a powered off/on state depending on preference. A snapshot in an 'on' state will result in a larger snapshot size as it includes the contents of the VM's RAM while a snapshot in an 'off' state will be smaller but require the VM to boot each use.
The entire process takes only a few seconds per browsing session, which is a small inconvenience for a significant increase in privacy.