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Angry Jesus writes:
"The TorrentFreak news site just released their latest annual survey of VPN providers' privacy policies. The results are very encouraging: it seems that the idea that online privacy is important is becoming more widespread and the price is quite affordable, just a few dollars a month.
For nearly a year I've been using one of the VPN services on their list. Not so much for the anonymous bit-torrent capability, but rather to frustrate Big Data's attempts to track me. I typically use domestic USA end-points and switch between 10-20 of them during the course of the day. That is coupled with various privacy extensions to Firefox (blocking cookies, JavaScript, Flash, ads, cross-site includes, and randomizing my user-agent). So far, I've been quite happy with how it has worked out. Even if I can't protect myself from the NSA, I can protect myself from just about everyone else."
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Monday March 17 2014, @09:35AM
There are distributed search engines in existence, my brief research on the subject for another comment reply recently found one called Yacy that looks fairly promising. Naturally it's not as fully-featured as web-based centralized search engines but it can only get better with more support.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by DNied on Monday March 17 2014, @09:58AM
Unfortunately, it's written in Java.