Privacy in the web

Most people are not really aware of how every of your step is watched throughout the internet.

I want to sum up some knowledge I gained by programing for a decade 8 web-languages:

Cookies are little textfiles stored on your computer, so that you can be tracked down again at a later stage.The most agressive cookies are flashcookies, which are stored via any flash on your webpage ( has to be just 1 pixel wide, so you would not see it, or can be any flash ad)
All major websites except Wikipedia use them to create user profiles, the most agressive company was DoubleClick.net, which was aquired by Google shortly after Youtube was, and for half that money.
Google makes shure to collect ALL of your data, which is, why they do even read users mails, check out all pages one surfs via Google Chrome and only allows people with their real name to join their Google Plus network.

Google proudly announced that it cought a pedophile by his web searches, which prooves that they do collect anyones searches including times and everything which is added in one of their services like blogger for example.

As agressive as Google is Facebook - and it is well known that Zuckerberg just laughs of questions about priacy. This is the reason why they placed the "like" button on every page or have tools like facebook discussions etc. Because they want to collect all surf behaviour of all people. It is also known that to cancel your account, facebook fools people into "deactivating" their account instead which means that all information still lies dormant until the user logs in next time again. Even if an account is cancled properly via help from external pages, the account will be reactivated instantly as long as a user logs in within a fortnight again. Better it would be not to ever log in again and ask friends if you are still online.

These two examples raise the question why those two giants first of all got so huge in the first place, and secondly what their hidden agenda is in the longrun.
It is no secret that Facebooks Zuckerberg is visited by secret service leaders in the middle of his meetings, and that Google when they suddenly overpowered all the companies like Mapquest which worked for a decade on creating maps, because they suddenly had all military photos, which you can check if you go to a country side, and check the level of the zoom available, and then go to a nearby military site - there sudeenly you can zoom in much deeper, so it must have been of military interest to shoot those pics in the past.

So if Google got all those maps all of a sudden one asks why they got such a favorable deal and what other deals they and Facebook got, to overpower the rest. Why do you think , Obama visited Google so often ? Shurely not, because they are a romantic american-dream incarnation.

My personal suspicion is that they got great offers like bandwidth etc. in return for data. And in order to disguise their hidden agenda best way is to make it look like a legitimate business by advertising all over the place with Googleads , ads which also serve to spy on a users surf/behaviour. On each site you see a picture from Google or a "like"button from Facebook you can be sure that your personal IP (the number which identifies you as a surfer) is stored in a huge database, and even if you interrupt the chain, all they have to do is to give you an id and at the next sign of you logging in somewhere or using the same IP with another browser, they can connect the dots easily.
So when you clear your cookies, the first thing Google does ( and I have tested this by checking out the Flash-cookie storage live), they write another cookie into it and wait until you allow cookies again, and bang- they got you because you were user #007 before and here they have you again.

Now even when you think that you are save and for example download files with another program then your normal browser, you still are required to activate many downloads or comments you want to make anonymously, to fill out a captcha field. And here Google comes in again, because they bought one of the largest captcha firm in the world - the one which had this brilliant idea of letting users read and correct unscannable content by giving them one known and one unknown word - one to check if the user is for real, and the other one being the word to write into their database. This comes in very handy for Google who wants to scan everything, so users do their work, but it also serves them well to know who exactly filled in which captcha at what time all over the world.

I would like to give you two scary example of how difficult it is to start from scratch in the web:
By choosing my artists name AmrAmAr I wanted to do that without any criminal record whatsoever, more so that I wouls have a chance of finding new people instead of old ones stalking me up all the time - just a clean energetic slate, nothing serious.
So when I used the Bandcamp plugin for facebook they instantly put my record automatically on my facebook-profile, so that my photos are in there. Now Facebook uses face-recognition-software, which instantly will identify me again from old pictures they might have collected already.
And this is what happened with Google + today: I was kicked out there because I wanted to use my pseudonym, and today with another googlemailAccount I wanted to subscribe under AmrAmAr again. The first thing they did, was to recommend to me to befriend the guy who invited me last year to the other Google + account - a clear sign that they tracked me down meanwhile all over the place across several different webpages.

Now do not be scared or lazy and give up on your god-given right to privacy and freedom to think what you want, so
should you be now none of the majority of people who can not be bothered to deal with all that stuff anymore and still have an interest in protecting your private sphere from SOPA, PIPA, Patriot Acts and other US-based control-mechanisms,
I would recommend following steps for you:

1. Use another search engine then Google, there are plenty out there - the one I use is https://duckduckgo.com
2. Cancle your facebook account for real ( not just deactivating it)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cancel+facebook+account+permanently
and then if you want to still use it , start from scratch with a pseudonym.
3. Allow cookies - else you will have tremendous troubles logging in many places - but set your browser to delete those cookies each time you shut it down and do set google as your startpage or leave the google searchfield in your browser active, because Google instantly places cookies onto your browser again.
4 Needless to say - don't use the Chrome-Browser and if possible not their mail.

BREAKING NEWS:
It just got even worse, because Google merges its user data all across their services - Big brother watches even closer:
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/24/tech/web/google-privacy-policy/index.html