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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'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…
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 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.
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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.
man unzip, man strip, man touch, man finger, man mount, man fsck
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I believe the original intent of that site was to get you on the NSA watch list
Was to overwhelm the NSA watch list with software engineers. I'm reminded of a Usenet campaign in the mid-late 90s, adding hot terms to sigs.
That was a terrible one. I wish I hadn't clicked it.
Oh, oh,. So some troll will now add an invisible iframe to ruinmysearchhistory.com on some other popular site just for the lulz
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.
Could it simply be the speed with which the queries are made, making a bot-blocker suspect a bot? 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 g…