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Ruin My Search History
- anotheryou 10y agoThey should have left out the gay stuff. Might have potential to stir up a heterosexual relationship, but makes it look like it's a bad thing on it's own.
- noxToken 10y agoOr when you consider that most people in a relationship are in a heterosexual relationship, you target a lot of people.
- mmastrac 10y agoSpoiler 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', 'romantic ways to propose', 'engagement rings', 'sex shop in my city', 'how to tell if partner cheating', 'ways to kill someone hypothetically', 'undetectable poisons', 'how to delete search history in browser', 'ashley madison hack', 'view ashley madison list', 'ashley madison list my city', 'paternity test', 'mail order paternity test', 'attracted to mother why', 'is incest illegal in this country', 'latest laws incest', 'seduction guide', 'rohypnol safe dosage', 'smelly penis cure urgent', 'common STIs', 'STI test in my city', 'average penis size this country', 'do penis pumps work', 'best budget penis pumps', 'does liking men mean im gay', 'signs of being gay', 'how to come out as gay to dad', 'age of consent here', 'why is age of consent so old here', 'country low age of consent', 'flights philippines', 'isis application form', 'how to join isis', 'cheap syria flights from here', 'syria hotels with pool', 'bing', 'donald trump', 'OH COME ON DONT JUST COPY AND PASTE THE LIST FROM THE ARRAY YOU CHEEKY SCAMP']"
- Paul_S 10y ago"Bing" - the most embarrassing of them all. Watching it run is like holding a burning match and not letting go. I live in the UK so I expect the police to knock tomorrow.
- tinalumfoil 10y agoHow to reverse the damages: 1) Go to https://history.google.com/history/ https://history.google.com/history/ 2) Select the offending searches 3) Click delete on the top right (then click delete again)
- sdegutis 10y agoI'm pretty sure Google won't actually delete any of them from their internal profile of you though.
- yk 10y agoBy now, they probably filter the array from the history.
- low_battery 10y agoThey actually do delete.
- Teever 10y agoHow do you know this for a fact? If the roles were reversed would you delete? Or would you just like and say you did?
- gradys 10y agoIf I were representing a big, well known company with lots of money to give out in settlements, I'd be much more likely not to say anything than to bother lying.
- smt88 10y agoThat's not universal. When a company screws up, an individual rarely goes down for it. The impact of the crime is often absorbed by many people (or no one).
- untog 10y ago
- trjordan 10y agoIt's not JUST that, though -- it also modifies "my city" and "this country" to be your location, too!
- alanh 10y agoIt didn’t for me. I’m in SF. I ran this in a Safari private browsing window.
- franciscop 10y agoThe decoded code: > http://pastebin.com/jWT37M2D http://pastebin.com/jWT37M2D
- cm2187 10y agoIt could be a lot worse. A nasty malicious attack would do searches for making a bomb, joining ISIS, piloting a 747, bypassing airport security, etc. In these days and age, this is a guaranteed full body search and a registration on the no fly list next time you want to fly to see your family for christmas.
- BHSPitMonkey 10y agoThe one about joining ISIS is in there.
- capoditutticapi 10y agomost of these searches look like my regular browse history
- smoreilly 10y agoso much this
- gauravagarwalr 10y agoGame Theory: If enough people click this, does Google stop showing stupid ads to everyone eventually?
- rehabindian 10y agono, but the ads will be more funny and ad payment disbursement more distributed. in the reverse, it could fire the backup mechanism and start showing very generic ads.
- vinchuco 10y agoWould Google be forced to pay less per click, disincentivizing advertisers? I'm not sure.
- striking 10y agoWell, I'm probably on a list now. Thanks for that.
- wingless 10y agoEveryone is on some kind of list. That's the beauty of automated mass surveillance.
- kome 10y agoyou already were in a list.
- other_herbert 10y agoWe are all on multiple lists...
- smoreilly 10y agoThis is beautiful.
- daveloyall 10y agoFrom the title, I guessed this would be some attempt to spoil or camouflage the profile that google keeps on each user, thus decreasing the value of profiles, thus fighting back. While I expected the attempt to be flawed, according to mmastrac's analysis, this is a joke. (And a pretty 'meh' one, at that!)
- Sir_Substance 10y agoThere's an actual thing that does this: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
- ganessh 10y agoUse incognito window to see what this is going to do
- kej 10y agoThat protects your saved history but doesn't help with anyone monitoring your searches, like corporate or political overlords.
- droidist2 10y agoIncognito doesn't do anything as far as Google or your ISP is concerned though.
- yaur 10y agolooking at the search terms above, I wouldn't want to run this from any IP that was traceable to me.
- lalos 10y agoPrivacy through noise? through obfuscation? I need a word for this
- jegoodwin3 10y ago"r strategy privacy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
- nostromo 10y agoWarning: 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.
- colemickens 10y agoDo companies really MITM SSL traffic in order to watch employees surfing habits?
- 0942v8653 10y agoYes.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- archinal 10y agoYou bet they do! In the past I have had to manually install my company's certificates as a root CA. The annoying thing was that the certs they use are expired and use SHA-1, so I also had to explicitly tell my browser to trust expired/unsafe certificates as well. All in the name of increased security!
- terminado 10y agoI would quit a job like that, unless there were seriously profound reasons for such a grotesque invasion. 1. There are proper ways to restrict activity without resorting to eavesdropping. 2. If they don't trust you enough to be responsible and use good judgement, you're probably stuck in a dead-end situation anyway. 3. In the more rare scenarios, where you might be operating live-saving or life-threatening equipment, or handling the salaries of many people, and dealing with monentary quantities in the many millions of dollars, guess what? You probably shouldn't be using an ordinary computer, with a web browser connected to the internet to perform those sorts of tasks, within the same operating system environment as ordinary web surfing to begin with.
- gexla 10y agoAre you hiring to come up with the crazy in this list? I would like to apply.
- seleniumk 10y agoI so badly want to extend this. I want more terrible searches!
- whamlastxmas 10y agoJust scrape keywords off 4chan and some deep web sites. Cops knocking on your door in no time.
- iagorodriguez 10y agolaughed really hard :)
- iagorodriguez 10y agoIf you create a form to submit new searches I will definitively help you (Cómo votar a Trump si eres mexicano)
- Juancho_Villa 10y ago¿Cómo votar por Trump si eres mexicano?
- Kluny 10y agoBuy yourself a non-voting american. I'm sure there's a few left.
- alanh 10y ago*I’m sure there are a few left (Since we're apparently debating grammar in this sub-thread)
- jschwartzi 10y agoI should really start a website that lets people bid for each other's votes online.
- NKCSS 10y agoI believe you'd make a killing, but I'm not sure it would be legal (and if so, I'm pretty sure they'll put a stop to it asap).
- throwanem 10y agoVote buying and selling is election fraud per 18 U.S. Code § 597 [1]. In fact, it's not even legal to make the offer, in either direction: "Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote— Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597
- j0e1 10y agoI'm 'ruined'!
- ianai 10y agoNow do this for facebook profiles
- i336_ 10y agoRelated: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonWTF/ 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
- slyall 10y agoI had a weird one yesterday. I went to the New York Times using private browsing and read a single article in the relationship section (something about wedding speeches) and then noticed that the next page I went to 90% of the recommended articles were engagement announcements. I guess things are hard when you only have a single data-point to base recommendations off.
- i336_ 10y agoVery true. The difficult problem in this case is that it's impossible to serve anything else, even though there are various techniques out there that still identify you when using private browsing (such as canvas fingerprinting - https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index...): even if they're using such techniques under the hood (and that study, apparently from 2014, says 5.5% of top 100k sites were using it), they can't use it for recommendations, for obvious reasons (browser vendors would get eaten alive, private browsing would be overhauled, this technique would no longer work, everyone goes home sad).
- vacri 10y agoI always find it amusing when you sign up for a service, and then for the next little while, half the ads you see are for that service. "Uh... but I've already signed up..."
- BillyParadise 10y agoSo they got the retargeting part right, but forgot to add a second tracking code for those who signed up. "Woops"
- _alaeri 10y agoReddit has kind of a cool discussion about it there: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/4nc763/ruin_my_search_history_ruin_your_google_search/d42s370 https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/4nc763...
- HannibalLecter 10y agoReddit is the worst thing to happen to Ycomb in forever. The recent dead canary, the tracking users offline, and the bait & switch CEO shit with Pao (who was their scapegoat)... it all adds up to something far worse than Digg ever was. All Digg tried to do was change their UI and spam people. Reddit is trying to fingerprint each user for the NSA.
- brbsix 10y agoOur systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen? IP address: * Time: 2016-06-10T00:07:58Z URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=donald%20trump It appears Google is not too happy with Donald Trump.
- gohrt 10y agoThat happens when your IP spams Google with too many queries too quickly.
- dingaling 10y agoIt also occurs if you cotinually tweak a single search term, for example adding more and more exclusions to try to bypass Google's 'suggestions'. I encounter it about once a month.
- brbsix 10y agoI also used to encounter it while using TOR. Not sure if it's still an issue however, as I try to refrain from direct use of Google.
- maaaats 10y agoYeah, 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.
- beatpanda 10y agoA+
- rehabindian 10y agoI laughed so hard, that co-workers started staring at me. Had to abort before anyone looked. I think i will hide this like a LMGTFY link and slack it.
- ryanmarsh 10y agoGot a really good LOL out of this. I wish HN had a little more humor, not Reddit levels, just a wee bit more.
- ssevenn 10y agoI almost fell off my chair. They should come up with a way to contribute to this list
- dude3 10y agoNext step is a chrome plugin that randomly searches for stuff in the background.
- balls187 10y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11873172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11873172
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- melvinmt 10y agoWill check this out next time I'm in an Apple Store...
- dayN 10y agoPlease mark the post NSFW
- bbcbasic 10y agoRun this and you will be profiled by the NSA as a hapless geek HN reader.
- bobwaycott 10y agoMission accomplished?
- codeisawesome 10y agoIt's on the frontpage of reddit too now - I wonder what NSA list that would make...
- mtgx 10y agoOkay...and?
- yyhhsj0521 10y agoAfter the 7th or the 8th query, Google's captcha kicked in, asking me to prove my humanity before continuing.
- beardog 10y agoKind of glad i used the tor browser bundle for this, pretty funny though.
- elliottcarlson 10y agoSome what related is the UTM Mangler; a browser extension that auto-replaces UTM campaign parameters with more interesting alternatives: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/utm-mangler/ngddlnhlmdnjphddadgonpfhccgjhfji?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/utm-mangler/ngddln... (source code: https://github.com/huntwelch/UTM-Mangler https://github.com/huntwelch/UTM-Mangler)
- voiceclonr 10y agoThis 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).
- necessity 10y agoThis thread makes me really happy for my recent installation of NoScript.
- bikamonki 10y ago"ways to kill someone hypothetically" oh oh cops knocking anytime now...
- coenhyde 10y agoThis 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.
- mlvljr 10y agoc'mon, harmless to us Russian folks (=> doesn't count :P ), AND NO COOKIE BONBS in the list, you are fine, too!
- Buge 10y agoWell the queries to google use https, so ISPs and government monitors shouldn't be able to see the queries. If you have malware on your computer, or if Google is giving your search history out to despot countries (I don't think they are), you might be worried.
- coenhyde 10y agoGoogle doesn't do certificate pinning with HPKP. So nothing stopping a despot country from using certs signed by a valid CA. And of course there are compromised CA's. The US is just smart enough not to do this for mass collection, otherwise they'll get caught.
- Buge 10y agoIt seems that Google does public key pinning, but possibly only through preloaded lists in browsers such as Chrome and Firefox. This blog post mentions them catching a bogus google.com cert from a trusted root https://security.googleblog.com/2015/03/maintaining-digital-certificate-security.html https://security.googleblog.com/2015/03/maintaining-digital-... This says Google does use HPKP, but I don't see headers myself. https://calomel.org/http_public_key_pinning_hpkp.html https://calomel.org/http_public_key_pinning_hpkp.html
- coenhyde 10y agoInteresting. A search in chrome://net-internals/#hsts for Google does indeed show the public key pinning. I guess they do own Chrome and could get their public key hashes baked into other browsers too.
- api 10y agoSuch disrupt. So convergent. Wow.
- mathattack 10y agoWhy vote this crap up?
- greenspot 10y agoGreat idea, I'll let this run all day long.
- dezb 10y ago['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', 'romantic ways to propose', 'engagement rings', 'sex shop in my city', 'how to tell if partner cheating', 'ways to kill someone hypothetically', 'undetectable poisons', 'how to delete search history in browser', 'ashley madison hack', 'view ashley madison list', 'ashley madison list my city', 'paternity test', 'mail order paternity test', 'attracted to mother why', 'is incest illegal in this country', 'latest laws incest', 'seduction guide', 'rohypnol safe dosage', 'smelly penis cure urgent', 'common STIs', 'STI test in my city', 'average penis size this country', 'do penis pumps work', 'best budget penis pumps', 'does liking men mean im gay', 'signs of being gay', 'how to come out as gay to dad', 'age of consent here', 'why is age of consent so old here', 'country low age of consent', 'flights philippines', 'isis application form', 'how to join isis', 'cheap syria flights from here', 'syria hotels with pool', 'bing', 'donald trump', 'OH COME ON DONT JUST COPY AND PASTE THE LIST FROM THE ARRAY YOU CHEEKY SCAMP']"
- akerro 10y agoTrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one's tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with Firefox and Chrome browsers and popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing) and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.
- Uptrenda 10y agoSome of these ISIS searches make me slightly concerned ... but other than that, not bad.
- TomasSedovic 10y agoFor those wondering how this works (I'm not too good with webdev and thought a site can't just open another tab and control it remotely): The code driving this is at: http://ruinmysearchhistory.com/ruin.js?1 http://ruinmysearchhistory.com/ruin.js?1 It uses window.open to run the search: window.open('https://www.google.com/search?q='+ encodeURI(ruinSearchQuery),'ruinmysearchhistory'); But the second parameter will set a name to the newly open tab. Calling window.open with the same name again will reuse the existing tab: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/open https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/open So it doesn't actually control the google site but keeps reloading it with new search urls. This may be obvious to everybody, but it did confuse me a little.
- 4h53n 10y agoShit.
- techthroway443 10y agoJust got a letter from my supervisor. Had no idea it would 'ruin' my search with perverted garbage. Thanks for that.
- lumberjack 10y agoOK isn't this dangerous though? I don't want to get on any lists.