SquiggleSR : deceiving search engines and cookie tracking

[http://squigglesr.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28]

SquiggleSR is a Firefox add-on which generates personalized queries to
search engines to deceive search engines and protect user’s privacy.
Queries are generated using personalized keywords and clicks are
randomly simulated on non-sponsored results. SquiggleSR uses several
sources of keywords, including RSS flows and search engines statistics
(Zeitgeist, Yahoo! Buzz…).
Motivated by the new controversial advertising system Phorm, we
introduce a feature capable to deceive cookie tracking in the last
version of SquiggleSR. This option simply simulates a full display of
clicked results and thus downloads ads from advertising and web
analyzing system (Double Click, Google analytics …). This option is
only available with Firefox 3 and off by default because it consumes
additional bandwidth and may open unwanted popup (notice that we are
adding a bandwidth estimator).
SquiggleSR new features and enhancements include:
• Enhanced graphics.
• Simpler interface.
• Support of Firefox 3 (including beta 5)
• Improved log visualization
• Support iso characters in queries
• Unify the management of keywords sources ( a tree is used instead of
different lists)
• Allow weighted simulated profiles : user can give a weight to a
topic, the number of queries generated that are related to this topic
depend on the weight of the topic
• Statistics (include bandwidth consumption)
• User search parameter (number of results per page, the language,...)
are used in simulated queries
Next versions of SquiggleSR should include:
• Simpler and more intuitive UI
• Several configuration levels.
• Adaptive queries and clicks scheduling
• More statistics

If you want further information, please visit the website:
http://squigglesr.free.fr

Comment and suggestions on the SquiggleSR forum (http://
squigglesr.free.fr/forum) are welcome.