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> You might get swept up in one just because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time or looked up the wrong search term And who gets to decide what a 'wr
by legrande 5y ago
> You might get swept up in one just because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time or looked up the wrong search term
And who gets to decide what a 'wrong' search term is? What if I wanted to figure out how nitrate bombs were made just out of plain intellectual curiosity, and not for the purposes of harming others?
And for sensitive search terms, I use Tor+DuckDuckGo and call it a day. Now and then I do that if looking up sensitive topics / health information like `how to cure hemorrhoids` or sexual health issues like ED. I would never use Google for topics like that!
- karencarits 5y agoRegarding Google and sensitive topics; why not? I often search on a lot of topics that could be sensitive but it would be really hard to separate pure curiosity from something serious
- darig 5y agoOK, Karen. Time for jail.
- kian 5y agoIf you're statistically discriminating, it doesn't matter if you're correct in any particular case - just that on average, you're more right than wrong. Just because you searched for heart issues doesn't mean you have them, but if people who do are more likely to search about them, then if an insurance company treats all people who search for this as if they are more likely to have it and raise their rates accordingly, they will profit.
- bigiain 5y ago> it would be really hard to separate pure curiosity from something serious Not for a prosecutor. Anything at all that could be used to paint you in a bad light? "serious".