Befuddle the NSA with the *NEW* Paranoid Browsing Extension for Google Chrome

"A snake eating it's own tail is not nutritious".
A government spying on it's own citizens is equally disturbing and pointless.

Paranoid Browsing is a new Google Chrome plugin designed to thwart nosey government and corporate surveillance scams by disguising your stream of actual web usage in a sea of random websites.  Paranoid Browsing starts at a random site and randomly clicks links at random time intervals resulting a browsing history that will befuddle even the shadiest of spooks.

By opening a new tab and enabling Paranoid Browsing you send those spooks on a wild goose chase down a rabbit hole of random websites.  Yes those are mixed metaphors because Paranoid Browsing is just that awesome.

I plan to let this run in the background from now on and if the long arm of corrupt and unconstitutional government snooping comes knocking at my door I can blame any potentially "terrorist" web activity on their overactive imaginations or merely my usage of the Paranoid Browsing plugin.

I've been playing with the plugin for a few hours now.  I think it needs some work to make it even more effective but it seems like a step in the right direction.

Watch the video and get the plugin below, wouldya?!



Get the Paranoid Browsing plugin *FREE* from the Chrome Web Store...

... or read what it's creator has to say about it before deciding whether it's right for you.

Confuse surveillers by randomly browsing the internet.

Advertisers and government agencies attempt to build a profile of you based on your browsing history. Paranoid Browsing confuses that effort by making a background tab which browses the internet at random.

PB was inspired by fictional software described in Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother: "It even throws up a bunch of 'chaff' communications that are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, [it] is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack."

PB currently browses the "standard American" set of web pages, but you can easily modify this to look at ponies, go carts or whatever else you want profilers to think you're interested in. Code is available on GitHub and pull requests are appreciated: https://github.com/Xodarap/Paranoid-Browsing

Note: Since Paranoid Browsing clicks on links randomly, you will get some popups. I recommend having a dedicated window for PB.

If you find PB useful, please consider donating to a top charity: http://www.effectiveanimalactivism.org/charity-evaluation/top-charities