Who knows more about the citizens in their own country, Kim Jong-Il or Google?

Google tracks everything, your searches, web movement which arises from your search, what places you went last summer (or are planning to go, thanks to Google maps). Google not only knows about you but also understands you much better than your own girlfriend. If that freaks you out, I’d say you are in your right mind. But now you can avoid it to a certain extent by using GoogleSharing.

GoogleSharing is an extension for Firefox, which will anonymize your requests to Google products which do not require you to log in but where your activities can be tracked by Google. Google keep tracks of you through cookies. If you attempt to strip off your cookies from your HTTP request, Google might tag you as spam bot and will force you to type in a CAPTCHA for your every request.

GoogleSharing strips off your personal information (IP, OS, browser agent, etc) from your requests to Google products (which do not require you to log-in) and your request is sent to Google Sharing Proxy Server which adds any required information to your requests and forward them to Google. All your requests made to other websites or google products which require log in, are left “completely untouched, unredirected, and unaffected” and they go directly to their destination.

How GoogleSharing works. Source:googlesharing.net

Any of your log-in information is never sent to Google Sharing servers, it is stripped off by the firefox addon that you will install. So you never have to compromise with security and you can still enjoy the services like Gmail, Reader, other non-Google websites without any proxy in between. Wherever required GoogleSharing will dive in between you and Google to protect you from Google.

GoogleSharing logs none of your requests on their servers and even better, they provide you with the source code they run on their servers so that if you have proper resources you can set up your own “Google Sharing Proxy Server” which will have nothing to do with GoogleSharing. You can find more about it on their official website.

Link to official website: GoogleSharing
Link to Mozilla Firefox addon site: GoogleSharing

Let me know through your comments what you think about this firefox addon.

Here is funny video on Google invading your privacy: