Reduce hops when privacy level allows to save Tor network bandwidth

[Jim]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> There are a great many people who have merely encountered one too many
> examples of the ubiquitious tracking on the Internet. For example,
> Google's abuse of JS fake out the link target display and intercept
> outbound links on search has been driving me nuts lately as it makes
> it impossible to copy and paste links from the search results. This
> makes me aware of and irritated by Google's surveillance.

You might want to look into using something like Scroogle
( http://www.scroogle.org ).  I thnk Scroogle scrubs those redirects.

Google was actually the motivating factor in causing me to get serious 
about overcoming whatever problem I had when I first tried to use Tor. 
Although my concern at the time was more the ubiquity of 
google-analytics.  But still concerned about using their search engine. 
  My problem was that (for quite a while now), when I try to do a search 
on Google via Tor, more often than not Google calls me a virus and tells 
me to go away ("unusual network activity" or some such).  My solution 
has been to connect to Scroogle via Tor.  I am not nearly as anti-Google 
as the guy (people?) who run Scroogle and I don't mind the unobtrusive 
right column adds on Google search results.  Its just my (usual) 
inability to use Google directly w/o dropping anonymity.

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