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Re: Ruin My Search History

#21

Post by j0e1 » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

I'm 'ruined'!

Re: Ruin My Search History

#22

Post by wingless » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:41 PM UTC

striking wrote: post #6

Well, I'm probably on a list now. Thanks for that.

Everyone is on some kind of list. That's the beauty of automated mass surveillance.

Re: Ruin My Search History

#23

Post by 0942v8653 » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:42 PM UTC

colemickens wrote: post #20

nostromo wrote: post #12

Warning: 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?

Yes.

Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:42 PM UTC

colemickens wrote: post #20

nostromo wrote: post #12

Warning: 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?

[deleted]

Re: Ruin My Search History

#25

Post by tinalumfoil » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:42 PM UTC

mmastrac wrote: post #2

Spoiler alert! From the base64 encoded array in the source: ['how to appear funny', 'why are my thumbs uneven', 'am i lack toast and tolerant', 'your youre difference', 'why doesnt my poo float', 'midget google images', 'tall midgets??', 'homemade lube?', 'i hate my boss', 'what counts as fat', 'how to tell partner they fat', 'is it normal to still love my ex', 'how to get back with ex', 'penis remove dog how to', 'r…

How to reverse the damages:

1) Go to https://history.google.com/history/

2) Select the offending searches

3) Click delete on the top right (then click delete again)

Re: Ruin My Search History

#26

Post by ianai » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:46 PM UTC

Now do this for facebook profiles

Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by kome » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:46 PM UTC

striking wrote: post #6

Well, I'm probably on a list now. Thanks for that.

you already were in a list.

Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by i336_ » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:47 PM UTC

Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonWTF/ (NSFW!!)

I've heard people complain after being subscribed to that subreddit that Amazon's relevance engine becomes unusable for them (and while unsaid, I imagine they can't browse Amazon with anyone else at their computer).

OP, take note. :P

Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by _alaeri » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:50 PM UTC

Reddit has kind of a cool discussion about it there: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/4nc763...

Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by archinal » Thu, Jun 09, 2016, 11:51 PM UTC

colemickens wrote: post #20

nostromo wrote: post #12

Warning: 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?

You bet they do! In the past I have had to manually install my company's certificates as a root CA. The annoying thing was that the certs they use are expired and use SHA-1, so I also had to explicitly tell my browser to trust expired/unsafe certificates as well. All in the name of increased security!