Blur My Searches

Multiply your web searches to add irrelevant data to what is collected about you

This project has not been started yet.

This README is, for now, mainly here to guide the project, and will be tidied up later.

Totally untraced web browsing isn't possible. There are a lot of tools out there to make things better, but being totally anonymous is not possible, and having no data being collected is also not possible... unless you live in a cave, but then you wouldn't be reading this anyway.

I'm sure this tool already exists in some form, but here's my version.

Usage

The idea would be running the program in the background while browsing. It would gather anything that is searched and would simultaneously issue tens of other random searches. The randomness of these other searches could be fined tuned with dictionnaries of words so that the other searches would somewhat resemble the effective search.

For example I'm buying shoes online, I type in 'boots', the program simultaneously searches the same website for 'sandals', 'santiags', 'socks', 'runners'... you get the idea.

Implementations expected

The background program needs to know a few things:

• When to issue a search (typically the user could just run the program manually when he/she wants to browse, but it would be better to issue searches at the precise same moment the user sends his/hers).
• What the user types: keylogger? Or catch HTTP? What about HTTPS? Or read the GET request.
• Obviously, which website the user is browsing.