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Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by WhatIsThisIm12 »

Today my google account was suspended for ToS violation. I think it might have something to do with the "ruin my search history" viral thing yesterday.

Did anyone else who participated in that have their account suspended today?

(Talking about this -- do not open link if you do not want to literally ruin your search history: ruinmysearchhistory.com)

Re: Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?

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Post by edgarvaldes »

curiousgal wrote: post #6

As I am currently in a North African country I freaked out when the ISIS shit started popping so I immediately deleted my google history and nothing happened now. I still don't get why something so malicious was upvoted so much.

The name of the site is pretty clear.

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Post by nefitty »

Wow, really sorry to hear that happened! I would be in a panic if that happened to me. I feel like that site could have been used for good, to maybe scramble user profiles. As another user commented here, the terrorist search terms seem like a really unnecessarily extreme joke. Do you think you were suspended because of the high volume of automated searches or would it have something to do with the actual content?
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