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Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by LaMarseillaise »

edgarvaldes wrote: post #7
curiousgal wrote: post #6

As I am currently in a North African country I freaked out when the ISIS shit started popping so I immediately deleted my google history and nothing happened now. I still don't get why something so malicious was upvoted so much.

The name of the site is pretty clear.

Not really... I actually rather expected it to be an article like just about anything else here.

It was not labeled "Show HN" or anything, and apparently only required opening the link (I did not open it myself).

Edit: I guess I was misinformed about this last - micaeked says that you have to click a button on the page.

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by bbcbasic »

edgarvaldes wrote: post #7
curiousgal wrote: post #6

As I am currently in a North African country I freaked out when the ISIS shit started popping so I immediately deleted my google history and nothing happened now. I still don't get why something so malicious was upvoted so much.

The name of the site is pretty clear.

Go on! Blame that victim.

Edit: please don't let the down voters win.

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by curiousgal »

edgarvaldes wrote: post #7
curiousgal wrote: post #6

As I am currently in a North African country I freaked out when the ISIS shit started popping so I immediately deleted my google history and nothing happened now. I still don't get why something so malicious was upvoted so much.

The name of the site is pretty clear.

It is, but seeing it on HN made me think it was "ruin" along the lines of "throw off Google interest-based ads" not "get you on a list".

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by bbcbasic »

curiousgal wrote: post #6

As I am currently in a North African country I freaked out when the ISIS shit started popping so I immediately deleted my google history and nothing happened now. I still don't get why something so malicious was upvoted so much.

Yes it is reckless endangerment

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by micaeked »

LaMarseillaise wrote: post #11
edgarvaldes wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The name of the site is pretty clear.

Not really... I actually rather expected it to be an article like just about anything else here. It was not labeled "Show HN" or anything, and apparently only required opening the link (I did not open it myself). Edit: I guess I was misinformed about this last - micaeked says that you have to click a button on the page.

You do have to click a button after opening the url.

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by aerovistae »

I'm curious: does anyone know whether Google searches are truly monitored, and how, if it's HTTPS?

I showed ruinmysearchhistory.com to a Pakistani Muslim friend, not having clicked it myself, and he thought it was funny until the ISIS application parts started coming up, when he consequently freaked out, as you might imagine.

But this got me wondering -- it seems to be widely accepted that googling things like "how to make a bomb," "bomb materials," "where to buy guns," etc will get you put on a government watchlist.

It's never been clear to me whether this is superstition or if there's truth to it. Google is fully HTTPS-- how could your searches be monitored unless google was handing them over to the government?

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by fennecfoxen »

WhatIsThisIm12 wrote: post #10

Sidenote since this is getting so much attention: How does the website control the URL of an external tab? Is this effectively tabnabbing?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/open
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