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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 t…
I 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.
Edit: apologies, meant to reply to OP, not here. To parent, I already upvote your comment - it's pretty cool, but also scary that we now have conversations about whether we're being surveiled by our government (in the US) as a casual normality. The only difference that appears to remain is that we openly talk about our government surveiling us. I worry they'll attempt put a stop to that too eventually.
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I often wonder if I'm going to get arrested searching for the best way to kill a hung child process.
Or outed as gay for Googling linux manual pages. "Honey, why do searches for ' man date ' and ' man find ' appear in your your internet history?" - My future wife.
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 t…
Do they hand it over to law enforcement/NSA/oppressive regimes? Maybe.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I often wonder if I'm going to get arrested searching for the best way to kill a hung child process.
Or outed as gay for Googling linux manual pages. "Honey, why do searches for ' man date ' and ' man find ' appear in your your internet history?" - My future wife.
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 up seriously fucking up our lives.
Also it'd be nice if US folks sharing those links and encouraging actions of the kind could be considerate of non-US people who don't necessarily have the leisure of getting on all kinds of list.
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 t…
In the US, the query "where to buy guns" seems perfectly legitimate.