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It’s fair to assume that every single interaction you have with any major website is logged and stored, and disabling any “history” features etc is only for you
by sen 5y ago
It’s fair to assume that every single interaction you have with any major website is logged and stored, and disabling any “history” features etc is only for yourself, eg if you’re on a shared computer.
There’s absolutely no way any of the FAANGs would let you use their service without harvesting your data. It’s their reason for existing and any other “features” (like search, maps, video) is just the carrot to get you there.
- refulgentis 5y agoThis is both the best organic example of FUD I've seen since Slashdot articles on Microsoft during the Windows/Linux battles 20 years ago, and an excellent example of the black hole nihilism of 2010s HN on data - free, fantastic tools used by billions are reduced to a "carrot" for "data harvesting"
- bayindirh 5y agoWhy a multi-billion tech conglomerate should code "free, fantastic tools used by billions", if it's not going to get anything from it? We openly trained/training image detection algorithms with re-captcha for example.
- Cipater 5y agoSo why do they offer these services for free? Altruism?
- whoknowswhat11 5y agoMost sites do track forever. That said google at least and I think Microsoft anonymizes a bit after I think 18 months or so, and does the last bits of an IP address before anything is written to disk on the google analytics side.
- nl 5y agoGoogle deletes old data after 18 months for new users: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-collects-a-frightening-amount-of-data-about-you-you-can-find-and-delete-it-now/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-colle... For users who signed up before that point you choose how long to keep it for.
- trasz 5y agoOr at least claims to do so. No reason not to trust them about it, right?
- brootstrap 5y ago"Delete data" aka keeping all of the records around but changing the `is_Deleted?` column to True.
- nl 5y agoGPDR penalties make this kind of misleading information pretty expensive, even for Google. Why would they do that when commercial intent is available from current behaviour so easily.
- rat87 5y agoIt may be accurate but its not fair to assume and could be illegal (especially in the EU) If they don't want you to use services then they should explicitly disable them without tracking
- bayindirh 5y agoYou just have to anonymize at various levels after some time . You can keep the data forever if you wish (with anonymization of course).