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How 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
by tinalumfoil 10y ago
How 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 agoIf I were in charge of a publicly traded company I most definitely wouldn't want a scandal like that lurking beneath the surface. It would absolutely leak.
- nitrogen 10y agoThe existence of classified programs that remain classified and unknown for years is evidence against this oft-used argument.
- red_phone 10y agoThe only reason you know of the existence of these programs is because they leaked...
- frank_jaeger 10y agoWhich would almost certainly imply there exist programs that have never leaked...
- yeowMeng 10y agoie, datasets that are maintained and properly encrypted in a 'CEUE' (Create Encrypt, Update, Encrypt) app.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- asuffield 10y ago(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.
- gravitronic 10y agofrom any data warehouse as well?
- Nitramp 10y agoIt is fully deleted.
- beshrkayali 10y agodoes the data get sent anywhere else before it gets deleted?
- ekianjo 10y agoDont worry the NSA keeps a copy for you just in case.
- dward 10y agoYes. The only way to delete things at scale is to ship them over the network to a dedicated cluster of machines running a proprietary fork of /dev/null. Google has invested man decades into this system and holds numerous patents on the design.
- whamlastxmas 10y agoWhat 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.
- lucb1e 10y ago> "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.
- Nitramp 10y ago> 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.
- akerro 10y agoNo they don't. They just don't show it to you. They hide your search list, but it's still included in your Google profile.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoBetter yet, delete the entire search history and turn it off.
- Jugurtha 10y agoWhy don't people just visit in incognito mode in the first place?
- seanp2k2 10y agoBecause that's annoying, history is useful sometimes, and logging in to multiple times to multiple sites is a chore. Edit: grammar
- Buge 10y agoNot visit all sites in incognito. Visit this specific site in incognito, since it has "Ruin my history" in the title.
- Jugurtha 10y agoIt 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, etc).
- flealam 10y agoYou could just 'Right Click->Open in Incognito' instead of manually copying the URL, at least in Chrome.
- khedoros 10y agoFirefox 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.
- akerro 10y agoDo people actually use Google Search while being logged-in in Google?
- rbinv 10y agoUmm, yes?
- hellofunk 10y agoOf course. Most people aren't going to logout of Gmail when they want to do a Google search.
- roel_v 10y agoWho ever logs out?
- Twisell 10y agoMe 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...
- chillingeffect 10y agoDDG 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!
- akerro 10y agoWhy do you even login?
- tokenizerrr 10y agoGmail? Google Apps for Business? Youtube? Google Analytics?
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- patcheudor 10y agoThere 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/ 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.
- jachee 10y agoI 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)