<story><title>Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies-are-collecting-your-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>If I download Tor I&amp;#x27;ll end up on one of the governments&amp;#x27; lists.  Is there a way to download it anonymously :-)</text></item><item><author>aw3c2</author><text>Just a reminder that &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.torproject.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.torproject.org&lt;/a&gt; offers a free and open-source unzip-and-run Firefox to use a anonymizing network run mostly by volunteers.&lt;p&gt;Using Tor to anonymously and privately educate yourself about embarrassing or potentially ostracized problems with yourself is a great use of it. Just remember that you should not ever enter any identifying information while using it.&lt;p&gt;Tor is more than fast enough for every day browsing, heck I use it to watch Youtube without major problems. I also use it to read the news, find recipes or lyrics (or similarly shady web circles) etc.&lt;p&gt;If the other side does not &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; to know who you are and does not &lt;i&gt;have to&lt;/i&gt; synchronize that information into a vast tracking&amp;#x2F;advertising network, why should you willingly submit it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re already on the lists.&lt;p&gt;If you &lt;i&gt;don&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; use Tor, you&amp;#x27;re on the list &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; they&amp;#x27;ve got ready access to your browsing data and metadata.&lt;p&gt;If you do use Tor, you&amp;#x27;re only on the list, and their workfactor for accessing your data and metadata is far higher.&lt;p&gt;Plus you&amp;#x27;re providing more cover for those who have strongly urgent needs for similar levels of protection.</text></comment>
<story><title>Looking Up Symptoms Online? These Companies Are Tracking You</title><url>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies-are-collecting-your-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>andy_ppp</author><text>If I download Tor I&amp;#x27;ll end up on one of the governments&amp;#x27; lists.  Is there a way to download it anonymously :-)</text></item><item><author>aw3c2</author><text>Just a reminder that &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.torproject.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.torproject.org&lt;/a&gt; offers a free and open-source unzip-and-run Firefox to use a anonymizing network run mostly by volunteers.&lt;p&gt;Using Tor to anonymously and privately educate yourself about embarrassing or potentially ostracized problems with yourself is a great use of it. Just remember that you should not ever enter any identifying information while using it.&lt;p&gt;Tor is more than fast enough for every day browsing, heck I use it to watch Youtube without major problems. I also use it to read the news, find recipes or lyrics (or similarly shady web circles) etc.&lt;p&gt;If the other side does not &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; to know who you are and does not &lt;i&gt;have to&lt;/i&gt; synchronize that information into a vast tracking&amp;#x2F;advertising network, why should you willingly submit it?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nnq</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s one more reason to also convince your coworkers, acquaintances, friends etc. to download and try it, even if you know they probably won&amp;#x27;t need it :) The longer the lists, the harder it will be for anyone to be singled out from those lists and the lesser information the fact that we&amp;#x27;re on them will provide.&lt;p&gt;...the best place to hide is in a crowd, and the bigger the crowd the better :)</text></comment>