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Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by [deleted] »

tinalumfoil wrote: post #25
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)

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Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by patcheudor »

tinalumfoil wrote: post #25
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)

There are bigger problems and one's which put people at serious risk when forensics investigators don't know how fragile the search history implementation really is:

http://thefutureisastephenkingnovel.com/badforensics/

You'll note in the search history that the referrer is still there so from a forensics perspective it's known the history was populated via CSRF. That can be bypassed. Google has indicated they aren't going to fix the problem.

Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by jachee »

tinalumfoil wrote: post #25
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)

I was very pleased to find that, at some point in the past, I saved myself from this situation. When I completed step 1, I was greeted by a nice blank list. I clicked over to my settings and found the following good news:

>Your searches and browsing activity (paused)

Re: Ruin My Search History

#185

Post by chillingeffect »

grkvlt wrote: post #166
akerro wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do people actually use Google Search while being logged-in in Google?

Absolutely! The saved search history is incredibly useful for shaping and filtering search results to make them more targeted and helpful. I also see more relevant adverts, and less generic ones, which makes them much less annoying. People of a certain technical mindset have a knee-jerk "Privacy! Surveillance! Evil!" response, tuned to the worst possible world type of scenario, where the rest of the Internet is popul…

> tuned to the worst possible world type of scenario,

With the possibility of a racist American president looming, search results which could signal one's ethnicity become a valid concern.

Re: Ruin My Search History

#186

Post by chillingeffect »

Twisell wrote: post #165
roel_v wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who ever logs out?

Me since I rarely log in in the first place. I only googlog in to my association's "shared account" and log out straight away. Also I mainly use DuckDuckGo and bang !g only when needed. Privacy actually matter to me...

DDG is great! I've been using it for almost six months straight now! I'm glad we're not contributing to the monoculture! Keep it up!

Re: Ruin My Search History

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Post by lucb1e »

asuffield wrote: post #100
Teever wrote: post #80

Earlier 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.

What's an SRE?

Re: Ruin My Search History

#190

Post by lucb1e »

whamlastxmas wrote: post #102
Teever wrote: post #80

Earlier 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?

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.

> "Search history is a tremendously powerful tool and insightful data point for anyone."

Can confirm. Near the end of internships I use my browser history, and mostly the search history contained in that, to figure out what I've done so I don't forget anything in the report. It's a near perfect way to tell what I've been up to any day.

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