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I would have guessed this is for people who want to do a "neutral" search query without it being affected by where you are located or your past searches; I am n
by saurik 5y ago
I would have guessed this is for people who want to do a "neutral" search query without it being affected by where you are located or your past searches; I am not sure why you would jump to privacy? I guess the options feel a bit like privacy options, looking at it more carefully... but I would still see wanting to turn this off just to avoid ending up in situations where your history pollutes your screen (such as in demos).
- peakaboo 5y agoGoogle records where you are and stores your every search result, and you are not sure how it relates to privacy.
- austhrow743 5y agoClearly they mean how this setting relates to privacy.
- peakaboo 5y agoYou are correct of course. I'm just really tired of seeing Google act like we have options when it comes to privacy.
- mimsee 5y agoI'm talking about privacy because it's easy for people to not realise that this is not a privacy setting. I don't know if disabling the personal results toggle even puts you in to a "neutral" mode of Google since it clearly states at the bottom that: "Some Search results may require additional settings, like Web & App Activity or Location History". Reading more about Web & Web app activity explains it as follows: "If Web & App Activity is turned on, your searches and activity from other Google services are saved in your Google Account, so you may get more personalized experiences, like faster searches and more helpful app and content recommendations."[1] [1]: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?hl=en https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/54068?hl=en Edit: reworded from personalized results to personal results
- mattowen_uk 5y agoI have everything that Google allows me to turn off, turned off. And I rarely search (via Google) when logged in with my Google account, and I still see filtered/tailored results based on my IP location and my interests. I also run uBlock Origin, and Cookie AutoDelete, so Google are going to great lengths here to keep on tracking me. It's now at a stage where if you don't want to be tracked, you should just stop using the Internet.
- sen 5y agoI block all Google and Facebook domains at a router level, and haven’t really had many issues. I’m sure there’s sites that don’t work with those blocked but for whatever reason they’re not sites I visit. I get cloud flare captchas occasionally but barely enough to be annoying. I also use a VPN 95% of the time, only turning it off for Netflix occasionally.
- tgragnato 5y agoIt is the most practical solution to make sure there are no leaks to G. The most annoying thing is that reCAPTCHA stop working: more website administrator should consider migrating to hCaptcha.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoNo, it's enough to turn off Javascript. Virtually all tracking code is in Javascript.
- zbentley 5y agoAbsolutely not. GP was concerned about: > filtered/tailored results based on my IP location and my interests IP location is typically computed server side, based on the originating IP of requests. Your interests are recorded server side, based on what requests were made. "Tracking" in JavaScript is a big problem, and disabling JS does help prevent third party tools from knowing about you, but the discussion here is about first-party tracking: tracking being by Google, whose site you're using.
- qwertox 5y agoThis can be better archived by using a second, clean browser profile.
- tirpen 5y agoThere's no way it's easier to use a second browser profile every time you want to search and get useable results than just toggling this toggle once.
- np_tedious 5y agoI could see wanting this as a toggle on a particular search more than an account-wide setting
- jonnycomputer 5y agoThis.