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HOW TO 'UNGOOGLE' YOURSELF...
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Or are you concerned about your <A title="Clear Your Privacy Data on Mozilla Firefox" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Privacy-Data-on-Mozilla-Firefox">privacy</A> in this new digital age? With <A title="Search Google" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Search-Google">Google</A>'s excellent indexing of the <A title="Be Safe on the Internet" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Safe-on-the-Internet">Internet</A>, the reality is that <A title="Make Friends" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Friends">friends</A>, <A title="Deal With Family Members That Do Not Like the Wife/Husband" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Deal-With-Family-Members-That-Do-Not-Like-the-Wife/Husband">family members</A> and <A title="Ask for a Reference from an Employer" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Ask-for-a-Reference-from-an-Employer">employers</A> can find out more information about you than you potentially want them to, just by "Googling" your full <A title="Change Your Name" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Your-Name">name</A>. Here are a few ways of getting out of this situation.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wikihow.com/Ungoogle-Yourself"><SPAN>Steps</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wikihow.com/Ungoogle-Yourself"><LI value="0">Stop using your full name. The best way to "ungoogle" yourself is to not offer your full name or abbreviate your <A title="Change Your Last Name" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Your-Last-Name">last name</A> when signing up for online accounts, posting from your blog, or attaching yourself to any content that's published on the Internet. You can also create an online pen name or a <A title="Make a Screen Name" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Screen-Name">screen name</A> to go by. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wikihow.com/Ungoogle-Yourself"><SPAN>Tips</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wikihow.com/Ungoogle-Yourself"><SPAN>Warnings</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wikihow.com/Ungoogle-Yourself"></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B06B3C6A-2317-4911-9BC5-E91FB888614F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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