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Why do you even login?
Gmail? Google Apps for Business? Youtube? Google Analytics?
For YouTube you don't need to log in; the rest I don't use.
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Do people actually use Google Search while being logged-in in Google?
Who ever logs out?
I don't, but frankly Google isn't in my cookie whitelist so their cookies never get stored beyond using a Google service (like YouTube or, uh, I actually don't think I use another Google service).
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(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?
It is fully deleted.
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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.
> Almost assuredly the answer is yes.
[citation required]. Google goes through great lengths to make sure that's not the case, both technically with legal defense against overreaching subpoenas.
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#195Warning: 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?
Recently did an on-site pentest at a place that does this (a municipality in the Netherlands). First thing I did was go to https://torproject.org but of course that was blocked. Eventually I found a third party site that offered old versions and via an obfs proxy and bridge node I could get on the Internet uncensored (lots of sites were blocked).
So yup this happens. Is it effective though? No, this took me 15 minutes and I wasn't even an employee with months if not years of time on their hands.
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It depends. I have multiple windows (incognito and normal) containing many tabs. It takes copying the URL, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+V, Enter. History is important, but the site is called "ruinmysearchhistory.com". I visit websites I know with my normal window, the rest is mostly in incognito and if it's something I want to remember, I'll make sure to include it (i.e: visit it in normal mode, Evernote, Bookmarks, email to myself…
You could just 'Right Click->Open in Incognito' instead of manually copying the URL, at least in Chrome.
Firefox and Pale Moon both have "Open Link in New Private Window".
IE has some kind of private browsing option as well, but I don't know what would be the equivalent way to invoke it.
Re: Ruin My Search History
#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
(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?
"Site Reliability Engineer", I think.
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Not only that, you are being tracked in many other places. See the "Show more controls": > https://www.google.com/settings/accounthistory
I have a handy page I knocked up that I use periodically to minimise my Google footprint: http://www.jaruzel.com/How-Much-Does-Google-Know-About-Me
I thought I'd been careful with the settings but I think at some point I must have missed something, fucking android, last google phone I buy full stop.
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#199Related: 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
Ha, they've actually put in a rule to link to an image rather than the listing to stop this from happening.
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Yeah, I get it a couple of times a week when I try to search for old technical stuff, where google constantly reformulates my search and includes what it thinks are synonyms.
Google has some kind of "verbatim mode" which usually works better for technical stuff. (Search tools -> All results –> Verbatim)
Yup, putting things in "quotes."