Privacy through noise? through obfuscation? I need a word for this
Ruin My Search History
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#12Warning: people should know this is NSFW for anyone with a company that monitors your web usage.
I also wouldn't run this from an authoritarian country where local officials may not appreciate the joke.
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#13Are you hiring to come up with the crazy in this list? I would like to apply.
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#14I so badly want to extend this. I want more terrible searches!
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#15Use incognito window to see what this is going to do
That protects your saved history but doesn't help with anyone monitoring your searches, like corporate or political overlords.
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#16From the title, I guessed this would be some attempt to spoil or camouflage the profile that google keeps on each user, thus decreasing the value of profiles, thus fighting back. While I expected the attempt to be flawed, according to mmastrac's analysis, this is a joke. (And a pretty 'meh' one, at that!)
There's an actual thing that does this:
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#17Use incognito window to see what this is going to do
Incognito doesn't do anything as far as Google or your ISP is concerned though.
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#18laughed really hard :)
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#19If you create a form to submit new searches I will definitively help you (Cómo votar a Trump si eres mexicano)
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#20Warning: people should know this is NSFW for anyone with a company that monitors your web usage. I also wouldn't run this from an authoritarian country where local officials may not appreciate the joke.
Do companies really MITM SSL traffic in order to watch employees surfing habits?