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Thanks, that’s useful and interesting. Good on Google for keeping the two activities (and cookies) separate. [Edit: oof, I found my search history after all s
by gorgoiler 7y ago
Thanks, that’s useful and interesting. Good on Google for keeping the two activities (and cookies) separate.
[Edit: oof, I found my search history after all so most of this is moot. It’s under “Other Google Activity” ... “Web & App Activity”. I guess it would be nice to see the words “Search Activity” a little more prominently, but still, my bad.]
I can’t help but feeling that both cookies (and their associated histories) count equally as personal data.
Anyone who gets hold of my devices can use the cookies to get my history. I can use the cookies to get some of my history in some form or other (I can’t get my own search history, but I can see it partially in typeaheads on the desktop site.)
It feels half hearted that I can’t pull up the entire dataset, but then I would surely be grateful that no one else can do the same thing if they steal my login.
(I also accept that some of this is just me arrogantly pushing back on being told “no!” by Auntie Google, when I feel entitled to a yes.)