{"id":7315,"date":"2014-03-31T20:02:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7315"},"modified":"2014-03-31T20:05:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T00:05:13","slug":"disconnect-search-keeps-your-searches-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/disconnect-search-keeps-your-searches-private\/","title":{"rendered":"Disconnect Search Keeps Your Searches Private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rationaloptimist.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/images-4.jpeg\" width=\"230\" height=\"220\" \/>We live in an age that even George Orwell couldn&#8217;t have imagined. There are cameras everywhere, your searches are tracked, your phone calls belong to the NSA&#8230;where does it end.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re doing nothing wrong, do you want someone snooping on your searches? You can learn a lot about someone just from capturing their search terms. For instance, you can tell if someone is sick, planning a divorce, or is suffering from incontinence. Really? Yes, really. Who wants someone else knowing what&#8217;s going on in their lives. Shouldn&#8217;t we all expect a degree of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want your searches tracked and collated and bought and sold, try Disconnect Search. It works in your favorite browser and really helps you avoid illegal surveillance by anyone &#8212; including your ISP &#8212; who right now knows what you&#8217;re doing on the Web and what you&#8217;re searching for. Do they really need to know?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some info about Disconnect Search from its Web site:<\/p>\n<h3>How Disconnect Search protects you.<\/h3>\n<p>Disconnect Search is a specialized VPN that lets you search privately using your favorite search engine. We don\u2019t log searches, IP addresses, or any other personal info. To learn more check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/disconnect.me\/search\/faq\" target=\"_blank\">FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search engines save your searches, which can be connected to your real name. Disconnect anonymizes your searches.<\/li>\n<li>When you click a result link, the site may see your search terms. Disconnect doesn\u2019t let sites get your searches.<\/li>\n<li>Your ISP can also see your search terms. Disconnect prevents ISPs from accessing your searches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disconnect Search works with most popular browsers and it&#8217;s free. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/disconnect.me\/search\" target=\"_blank\">You can learn more by visiting the Disconnect Search home page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Note: Although the picture at the top looks a lot like EB when she&#8217;s screaming at me, it&#8217;s not her. I promise!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in an age that even George Orwell couldn&#8217;t have imagined. There are cameras everywhere, your searches are tracked, your phone calls belong to the NSA&#8230;where does it end. Even if you&#8217;re doing nothing wrong, do you want someone snooping on your searches? You can learn a lot about someone just from capturing their search terms. For\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/disconnect-search-keeps-your-searches-private\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1433,1670,1656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7319,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions\/7319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}