turn off google personalised search

It seems like a lot of people aren't aware that Google gathers your search history and uses it as the basis for targetting ads. A similar analysis is done with the emails your write and receive with a Gmail account. This data history has been used in several court cases as evidence.

While I'm all for capturing murderers, this same information can be used by unscrupulous agencies (you know, like Google) to profile dissenters. And frankly, I cringe to think of some of the things I looked up before I knew this information was being kept (porn, okay? I was looking up porn. Stop hassling me).

Click here for instructions on disabling Google Personalised Search.

[UPDATE: The link seems to have been broken. Try here.]