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Re: Ruin My Search History

#71

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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)

I'm pretty sure Google won't actually delete any of them from their internal profile of you though.

They actually do delete.

Re: Ruin My Search History

#75

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?

The search term is in the url.

Re: Ruin My Search History

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post #75

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Do companies really MITM SSL traffic in order to watch employees surfing habits?

The search term is in the url.

Which is still not normally visible to an outsider in an HTTPS request... (other than the cases we're discussing in the sub-thread where the company has installed a root CA and is seeing all of the traffic anyway).

Re: Ruin My Search History

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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

I had a weird one yesterday. I went to the New York Times using private browsing and read a single article in the relationship section (something about wedding speeches) and then noticed that the next page I went to 90% of the recommended articles were engagement announcements. I guess things are hard when you only have a single data-point to base recommendations off.

I always find it amusing when you sign up for a service, and then for the next little while, half the ads you see are for that service. "Uh... but I've already signed up..."

Re: Ruin My Search History

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post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do companies really MITM SSL traffic in order to watch employees surfing habits?

The search term is in the url.

HTTPS protects everything but the domain name. If you're not using SNI it might protect the domain too.

Re: Ruin My Search History

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure Google won't actually delete any of them from their internal profile of you though.

They actually do delete.

How do you know this for a fact?

If the roles were reversed would you delete? Or would you just like and say you did?

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