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I'm pretty sure EFF is wrong here. Google's Web History is basically a public version of your search history. You can turn on or off whether you want Google to rub your face in its knowledge about you. But it retains that knowledge even if you turn off the rub-in-your-face personalization part. Google retains a complete history of your interactions with them, which is not subject to this Web History setting, not dele…
I'm pretty sure EFF is wrong here. Google's Web History is basically a public version of your search history. You can turn on or off whether you want Google to rub your face in its knowledge about you. But it retains that knowledge even if you turn off the rub-in-your-face personalization part. Google retains a complete history of your interactions with them, which is not subject to this Web History setting, not dele…
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"or you have specific privacy needs/concerns" With all due respect, this attitude really disturbs me. It's becoming very common these days: the implication that only deviants, criminals, off-the-grid wackos, and the anti-social have any real need for privacy. No. I reject that premise. We all have a right to privacy, and we shouldn't have to give our reasons. (That's why it's privacy, after all!). We're quickly turni…
Although I dont disagree with your point I took the phrase to refer to e.g. political dissidents and the like.
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You can specify the date to export, so could step back exporting batches until you've got everything. https://www.google.com/history/lookup?month=11&day=30... It shouldn't be too hard to write a script to scrape you're whole history...
Hacked this together to do the job: https://gist.github.com/1884821
export.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- mechanize (LoadError) from export.rb:1
edit: nvm, installed libwww-mechanize-ruby and it's working fine.
Thus, when did we become a less free 'Third World Country'?
My apologies to citizens in Third World countries as I lack the vocab early this morning to express it in a different way.
The official title of the article is "How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect", and the writing itself is much more neutral than this submission title. I'm still not sure why people are afraid of Google's new privacy policy. I understand that there are people who have specific privacy needs, but outside that scope I doubt you have anything to worry about. It's doubtful…
"or you have specific privacy needs/concerns" With all due respect, this attitude really disturbs me. It's becoming very common these days: the implication that only deviants, criminals, off-the-grid wackos, and the anti-social have any real need for privacy. No. I reject that premise. We all have a right to privacy, and we shouldn't have to give our reasons. (That's why it's privacy, after all!). We're quickly turni…
I figure that keeping Google and Facebook in their own little prison should help greatly with privacy.
I use DDG for searching whenever possible.
Not so much to hide things (as a pastor I got used to being watched 24x7 years ago), but just to preserve what little privacy I have left.
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http://www.googlesharing.net/
It sounds good in concept, but I'm concerned that somebody searching for child pornography or similar could be associated with myself. I have the same fear of running a TOR exit node.
I use three browsers. Firefox for general browsing (technology and theology), Chromium for Gmail and Facebook, and Opera for blogs. I figure that keeping Google and Facebook in their own little prison should help greatly with privacy. I use DDG for searching whenever possible. Not so much to hide things (as a pastor I got used to being watched 24x7 years ago), but just to preserve what little privacy I have left.
What I want is a browser where I can be logged into Google, and any link I click will open that link in my "private" (not logged into Google) browser. Same with Facebook, Twitter, etc.
So I've started developing XUL apps to run each in their own sandbox.
