Scroogle Search Engine Close
Daniel Brandt founded the search engine Scroogle.org in 2003 as a “private” front end to Google to eliminate the use of tracking cookies and collecting search history. Although Google suffered a violation of ToS for several years, but in February 2012, Scroogle was finally blocked .
Unlike in previous cases, this time it was not possible to correct the situation. After blocking, as well as a prolonged DDoS attack on Daniel Brandt’s servers, the project had to be closed.
“I no longer have online domains, ” Brandt said . “I also removed all my domains from the DNS, because I want to signal the criminal elements that I no longer have any servers to destroy. I hope this will prevent further attacks on my previous hosting providers. Scroogle.org is closed forever. Even if I had no problems with DDoS at all, since December, Scroogle was still removed from the issue of Google, and was already dying. This could go on for another six months, if I had not lost seven servers due to DDoS, but that’s all. ”
In addition to Scroogle, I had to close other Brandt projects, including the popular reference for American intelligence officers and other influential people NameBase , who had been online since 1997, as well as google-watch.org and cia-on-campus.org,
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It should be added that Daniel Brandt is a real maniac in terms of privacy: he spent more than 9000 hours to remove an article about himself from Wikipedia, and by 2007 he had succeeded .
For those who want to preserve the privacy of search queries, you can recommend other anonymous search engines: DuckDuckGo , Ixquick , Yippy , Ask Eraser , as well as block cookies, scripts and advertising software.
Due to the fact that March 1, new rules governing the use of Google services come into effect, it is recommended to delete the history of your search queries in advance (see step-by-step instructions on the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation). After March 1, the user's search history can be used in all Google services.
Unlike in previous cases, this time it was not possible to correct the situation. After blocking, as well as a prolonged DDoS attack on Daniel Brandt’s servers, the project had to be closed.
“I no longer have online domains, ” Brandt said . “I also removed all my domains from the DNS, because I want to signal the criminal elements that I no longer have any servers to destroy. I hope this will prevent further attacks on my previous hosting providers. Scroogle.org is closed forever. Even if I had no problems with DDoS at all, since December, Scroogle was still removed from the issue of Google, and was already dying. This could go on for another six months, if I had not lost seven servers due to DDoS, but that’s all. ”
In addition to Scroogle, I had to close other Brandt projects, including the popular reference for American intelligence officers and other influential people NameBase , who had been online since 1997, as well as google-watch.org and cia-on-campus.org,
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It should be added that Daniel Brandt is a real maniac in terms of privacy: he spent more than 9000 hours to remove an article about himself from Wikipedia, and by 2007 he had succeeded .
For those who want to preserve the privacy of search queries, you can recommend other anonymous search engines: DuckDuckGo , Ixquick , Yippy , Ask Eraser , as well as block cookies, scripts and advertising software.
Due to the fact that March 1, new rules governing the use of Google services come into effect, it is recommended to delete the history of your search queries in advance (see step-by-step instructions on the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation). After March 1, the user's search history can be used in all Google services.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/138704/
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