Hey just wanted to add my thanks for this great post - I have been reading a lot of advice about the Google situation (hmmm 'don't be evil', you say?) but nothing that's been half as useful as this.
I already LOVE Ghostery - find the pop up completely unobtrusive and very reassuring. And I was already really worried about facebook et al tracking me before this Google situation cropped up and I think I can now use facebook again with Ghostery to protect me...right? Which is a great additional benefit.
Liking DuckDuckGo a lot as well - I don't know if anyone can tell me but while I have set DDG up as my default search on Firefox, the FF Omnibar still seems to default to Google for search when I accidentally put search terms in there, which I keep doing because I can't do without it and I can't seem to move it over to the right-hand side of the bar. Can I change that? FF Help not that helpful.
Thanks! Many birds with one stone
I already LOVE Ghostery - find the pop up completely unobtrusive and very reassuring. And I was already really worried about facebook et al tracking me before this Google situation cropped up and I think I can now use facebook again with Ghostery to protect me...right? Which is a great additional benefit.
Liking DuckDuckGo a lot as well - I don't know if anyone can tell me but while I have set DDG up as my default search on Firefox, the FF Omnibar still seems to default to Google for search when I accidentally put search terms in there, which I keep doing because I can't do without it and I can't seem to move it over to the right-hand side of the bar. Can I change that? FF Help not that helpful.
And...many thanks again!