It sounds good in concept, but I'm concerned that somebody searching for child pornography or similar could be associated with myself. I have the same fear of running a TOR exit node.
Actually it gives you plausible culpability, not plausible deniability. This idea that people actually don't get charged/tried/convicted because the evidence is a little flimsy is completely false.
What you say: "I did this cookie thing. I never searched for any sort of kiddie porn on the internet."
What the jury of your peers hears: "Child molester trying to pretend he didn't do it."
What the judge does: Extra time in prison because you aren't taking responsibility for your crimes.
It might give you plausible deniability in front of a jury (emphasis on might), but that says nothing about assumptions or biases made by law enforcement officials or prosecutors.
Yes, plausible deniability is pretty useless after the police have arrested you at 6am in your home after bashing down your door, and all your neighbours have found out that you've been accused of being a pedophile.
To go with what the sibling poster said: when you're so much as accused of paedophilia in this country, any sort of real expectation of due process or rational justice goes to shit. Plausible deniability won't be of much help.
Plausible deniability is needed when you want to hide your role in something. Since I'm not sharing kiddie porn, I have actual deniability. No TOR traffic needed.
As I understand it, the client plugin and the proxy are different programs. I don't think you have to run an "exit node" to use it. Though it obviously wouldn't work if no one would be running one, but that's a different issue.
I don't see how they would associate that with you. Only the exit node for the google queries would be suspect, and I'm pretty sure most don't keep logs.
