This screwed me up. I gave the 5 second attention and I thought it was doing the opposite (i.e flood with SFW links and sanitize my search).
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
What matters much more than whether Google deletes is whether some other group has access to and stores that data before Google deletes it. Almost assuredly the answer is yes. Search history is a tremendously powerful tool and insightful data point for anyone. There's no way government groups aren't using it. It takes up almost no room for storage, either.
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#103I so badly want to extend this. I want more terrible searches!
Just scrape keywords off 4chan and some deep web sites. Cops knocking on your door in no time.
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#104This thread makes me really happy for my recent installation of NoScript.
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#105Run this and you will be profiled by the NSA as a hapless geek HN reader.
Mission accomplished?
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#106"ways to kill someone hypothetically" oh oh cops knocking anytime now...
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#107This is super irresponsible to have on HN. Not funny. Especially for people who live in despot countries. Not sure if the USA counts quite yet.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I were in charge of a publicly traded company I most definitely wouldn't want a scandal like that lurking beneath the surface. It would absolutely leak.
The existence of classified programs that remain classified and unknown for years is evidence against this oft-used argument.
The only reason you know of the existence of these programs is because they leaked...
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#109Spoiler 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)
Better yet, delete the entire search history and turn it off.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.) I can happily endorse the company's public statements on this subject: personal data will be deleted within the timeframes specified (for obvious technical and that's-a-bad-idea reasons, it's not instant). Part of SRE's function is to arrange for SLAs to be met, including deletion SLAs.
from any data warehouse as well?