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I don't know about other services, but Chrome history is kept for 1 year.

by tpallarino 9y ago

ComodoHacker 9y ago
Kept or shown?
sleavey 9y ago
Wait, Chrome logs your browsing history with Google? Actually, I'm not surprised.
- Filligree 9y ago
  Encrypted, yes. It's so you can sync to other browsers.
  - Fnoord 9y ago
    Right, encrypted. And who can decrypt that? In Firefox, back when it was introduced in Fennec somewhere around 2007 or 2008 (I don't know how it is now), you'd need 2 passwords. One to log in to your Firefox account and gain access to your encrypted data, and one to decrypt the data. It is feasible a nationstate can get access to your encrypted data, but it isn't feasible they are able to decrypt your data.
- sam_goody 9y ago
  Aside for the browser storage, they also log every search request made from your browser. Since the only way to type a URL is to put it into the search bar, that means they get a log of every page you visit, how often you go there, how long yu spend there, etc. without triggering any other licenses or boxes. The same profiling is done from Safari and other Chromium / Blink browsers that have the "awesome address bar" I have read that when you visit a page with Analytics (which is like everywhere) Chrome has special handling so as to give them a more complete dataset without it being the browser that is officially collecting it.
  - ryanwaggoner 9y ago
    they also log every search request made from your browser. Since the only way to type a URL is to put it into the search bar, that means they get a log of every page you visit, how often you go there, how long yu spend there, etc. without triggering any other licenses or boxes. Not sure I follow. Why can't chrome just detect whether you entered a URL or not? If URL, load without sending to Google. If not a URL, send as search to Google.
    - Macha 9y ago
      facebook is not a url. facebook.com is. You need to type the first as part of typing the second.
  - djmobley 9y ago
    I think you're confusing the address bar autocomplete functionality with something more sinister. It's simple and straightforward to disable the autocomplete functionality in Chrome.

I don't know about other services, but Chrome history is kept for 1 year.

ComodoHacker 9y ago

Kept or shown?

sleavey 9y ago

Wait, Chrome logs your browsing history with Google? Actually, I'm not surprised.

Filligree 9y ago
Encrypted, yes. It's so you can sync to other browsers.
- Fnoord 9y ago
  Right, encrypted. And who can decrypt that? In Firefox, back when it was introduced in Fennec somewhere around 2007 or 2008 (I don't know how it is now), you'd need 2 passwords. One to log in to your Firefox account and gain access to your encrypted data, and one to decrypt the data. It is feasible a nationstate can get access to your encrypted data, but it isn't feasible they are able to decrypt your data.
sam_goody 9y ago
Aside for the browser storage, they also log every search request made from your browser. Since the only way to type a URL is to put it into the search bar, that means they get a log of every page you visit, how often you go there, how long yu spend there, etc. without triggering any other licenses or boxes. The same profiling is done from Safari and other Chromium / Blink browsers that have the "awesome address bar" I have read that when you visit a page with Analytics (which is like everywhere) Chrome has special handling so as to give them a more complete dataset without it being the browser that is officially collecting it.
- ryanwaggoner 9y ago
  they also log every search request made from your browser. Since the only way to type a URL is to put it into the search bar, that means they get a log of every page you visit, how often you go there, how long yu spend there, etc. without triggering any other licenses or boxes. Not sure I follow. Why can't chrome just detect whether you entered a URL or not? If URL, load without sending to Google. If not a URL, send as search to Google.
  - Macha 9y ago
    facebook is not a url. facebook.com is. You need to type the first as part of typing the second.
- djmobley 9y ago
  I think you're confusing the address bar autocomplete functionality with something more sinister. It's simple and straightforward to disable the autocomplete functionality in Chrome.