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What if you're writing a murder mystery novel?
or a filesystem...
I guess this refers to Reiser?
Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
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Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
#112The kind of stuff you can afford to do only when you're a US citizen and thus not a potential victim of some arbitrary US custom officer deciding you can't come in anymore and have no appeal. What I'm saying is, if you're not a US citizen, don't participate in those kinds of actions. The problems these campaigns highlight are real, but being foreigners, we have no legal recourses in the US in many areas, and can end…
Well this is a weirdly US-centric view.. You seem to assume that all people not living in the US are actually just waiting to emigrate their. I'm quite happy in Spain, thanks!
It's not about emigrating there, it's about merely being able to go. And in tech, being unable to enter the US is a hurdle.
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
#113I haven't clicked it as my usual Chrome user because I find my search history useful for recalling results.
I did open it in an incognito window and saw what it does. It doesn't look like a big deal. It's probably the web-era version of sticking red-alert keywords in your Usenet signatures back in the 80's and 90's.
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I always use a VPN so I am not worried about my IP address getting listed somewhere but I only hope Google does delete my search history... Yeah I'm on that list now.
Many VPNs do actually leak your IP address. Beyond that, your VPN traffic could be associated with your billing information for said VPN. Also by coresponding the traffic to the VPN and coming out of the VPN. Or if you have any personal information associated with your Google account or have ever accessed it with an IP associated with you. Look out the window. They're in the ice cream truck.
"your VPN traffic could be associated with your billing information for said VPN" - that's why I asked a friend from a completely different country to sign up for me (we are good friends with high technical prowess and he knows what he's up to).
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always use a VPN so I am not worried about my IP address getting listed somewhere but I only hope Google does delete my search history... Yeah I'm on that list now.
Many VPNs do actually leak your IP address. Beyond that, your VPN traffic could be associated with your billing information for said VPN. Also by coresponding the traffic to the VPN and coming out of the VPN. Or if you have any personal information associated with your Google account or have ever accessed it with an IP associated with you. Look out the window. They're in the ice cream truck.
Thats why hypothetically it's best to use one accepting a bitcoin payment and then fill in the other details from a fake name generator.
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
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Most Third World governments control ISPs and DNS queries can be easily monitored but whether those are implicative or not depends on where the content embedded in the search results is hosted/served from. Also, even if Google is fully HTTPS, if a query returns images hosted on unsecured websites, those urls will be plainly visible and hence implicative. Edit: The embedded thumbnails are actually encrypted as pointed…
So now we consider US to be Third World country? :)
wondered about the same thing
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most Third World governments control ISPs and DNS queries can be easily monitored but whether those are implicative or not depends on where the content embedded in the search results is hosted/served from. Also, even if Google is fully HTTPS, if a query returns images hosted on unsecured websites, those urls will be plainly visible and hence implicative. Edit: The embedded thumbnails are actually encrypted as pointed…
I was curious and just checked -- until you click on an image in google's search results to see it fullsize in the semi-lightbox, you're actually getting the "thumbnail" sent from google as a b64 encoded string
I suspect it might just be represented that way in the browser, and that it's not sent that way.
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
#118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880008
has no effect with iPhone 6 9.3 version
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was curious and just checked -- until you click on an image in google's search results to see it fullsize in the semi-lightbox, you're actually getting the "thumbnail" sent from google as a b64 encoded string
I suspect it might just be represented that way in the browser, and that it's not sent that way.
Interesting thought, but wouldn't it kinda have to be done that way? Otherwise you'd see missing images on image SERPs, and you'd see the delay of thumbnails loading due to slower source servers.
Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?
#120I find the serious conversations that came from this funny, seemingly silly project very interesting. 1- The chilling effect of people being scared to click on a link that may do searches their government cares about 2- The idea that if many people used a browser add in like this, it would make surveillance of search history much more difficult 3- Google accounts getting banned All from one silly site.
>1- The chilling effect of people being scared to click on a link that may do searches their government cares about