TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one’s tracks), but instead by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with Firefox and Chrome browsers, integrates with all popular search engines, and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.
+TrackMeNot can be installed from corresponding app stores on Google-Chrome and Mozilla-Firefox browsers.
+Additionally It can also be built from source.
git clone https://github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot.gitTrackMeNot runs as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. It hides users’ actual search trails in a cloud of ‘ghost’ queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles. TrackMeNot serves as a means of amplifying users’ discontent with advertising networks that not only disregard privacy, but also facilitate the bulk surveillance agendas of corporate and government agencies, as documented recently in disclosures by Edward Snowden and others. To better simulate user behavior TrackMeNot uses a dynamic query mechanism to ‘evolve’ each client (uniquely) over time, parsing the results of its searches for ‘logical’ future query terms with which to replace those already used.
+Official Webpage
+FAQs
+License
+Papers
Daniel C. Howe
+Helen Nissenbaum
Vincent Toubiana
+ From ba211cb59d531eb2247c1bfcbeb32435ae383347 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anubhav Choudhary <57551996+deprov447@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:13:49 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Deleted Old Readme --- README.md | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7852b74..0000000 --- a/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -TrackMeNot-Chrome -================= - -TrackMeNot portage on Chrome From bceac861862a373378a6dcd11fffa0bee01a39c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anubhav Choudhary <57551996+deprov447@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:14:38 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] added new README --- Readme.md | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index 5a2f145..876f187 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -1,4 +1,3 @@ ---- --- From 7727565c03816b27fa2201dfe62c002184e32a64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anubhav Choudhary <57551996+deprov447@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:15:29 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Rename Readme.md to README.md --- Readme.md => README.md | 0 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) rename Readme.md => README.md (100%) diff --git a/Readme.md b/README.md similarity index 100% rename from Readme.md rename to README.md From 56f89d2b5b62dddbff948602f0330ac24ff78489 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anubhav Choudhary <57551996+deprov447@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 12:16:58 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Update README.md --- README.md | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 876f187..e94f6b4 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,6 @@ - - --- - -TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one’s tracks), but instead by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with Firefox and Chrome browsers, integrates with all popular search engines, and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.
TrackMeNot can be installed from corresponding app stores on Google-Chrome and Mozilla-Firefox browsers.
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TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one’s tracks), but instead by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with Firefox and Chrome browsers, integrates with all popular search engines, and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.
TrackMeNot can be installed from corresponding app stores on Google-Chrome and Mozilla-Firefox browsers.