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Google account activity
- jemka 15y agoMirror: http://www.businessinsider.com/giving-you-more-insight-into-your-google-account-activity-2012-3 http://www.businessinsider.com/giving-you-more-insight-into-... OP link is returning a blank page.
- jedc 15y agoNot for me. Do you have Javascript turned off?
- spindritf 15y agoAmazing, it loads scripts from three domains to display six paragraphs of text and an image.
- simonw 15y ago... and the fallback for browsers with JS turned off is a completely blank page. Why do Google hate the web?
- gravitronic 15y agoIn Chrome, in windows, with ghostery + adblock installed, it crashed Chrome completely. Yay 2.0.
- jemka 15y agoJS is on. Blogspot as a whole isn't working for me right now. And nothing of value was lost.
- maxerickson 15y agoI need to allow it to set a cookie for it to load properly.
- pasbesoin 15y agoOr, using Google's caching feature: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleblog.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F03%2Fgiving-you-more-insight-into-your.html http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A... Here's the relevant bit: Today we’re introducing Account Activity, a new feature in your Google Account. If you sign up, each month we’ll send you a link to a password-protected report with insights into your signed-in use of Google services.
- eslachance 15y agoThis doesn't even scratch the surface of what Google could show you. If they showed us the extent of what they can actually infer from our activity, some people would probably shoot their computer, burn their router and modem, and never look at a screen again.
- 0x006A 15y agoWhat additional information do you think Google has available about its users that they are not showing?
- nextstep 15y agoOne thing that Google knows: other accounts you have with non-Google services. For example, when you setup your G+ profile, they offer to link a Twitter account that they suspect is yours.
- 0x006A 15y agoTwitter used to offer an api to lookup a user by email. So this does not have to be something they figured out by parsing your Inbox for Twitter signups.
- kaybe 15y agoAt least they don't ask for passwords like facebook does (which somewhere always prompts me for my email account password - the nerve!).
- eslachance 15y agoIt can probably build a very extensive list of skills (what languages you know, spoken or programming), preferences (habits, sexual, etc), hobbies, a full social network map (from emails and social networks), character (from analyzing emails, searches, etc), amongst other things. I'm not necessarily saying that this data is already compiled somewhere - but Google being a data-oriented company, they could most likely do all this if they really wanted to.
- ericabiz 15y agoPretty ironic that Google--a company that gained notoriety for its minimalist search engine--has a "company blog" full of ridiculous eye candy. On my laptop screen, the top bar (which stays as you scroll down) takes up a ridiculous amount of space. Then I accidentally moused over the bottom part of the page as I was reading the end of the article, triggering yet another bar popping up from the bottom and telling me about other Google sites. The icing on the cake is that the whole thing takes a bit of time to load (showing you a gear much reminiscent of the old "Flash intro" days)--all to load some sort of header with ugly colored balls that move around when you move the mouse. It's 1997 all over again, folks. Only I would have never expected Google, of all companies, to fall into the eye candy trap.
- kiba 15y agonotoriety? Are you saying google is notorious for having a minimalist search interface? I think you mean prestige.
- bh42222 15y agoWow, with NoScript on I see only a blank page with a bunch of NoScript links.
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- jey 15y agoYeah, I don't understand why Blogger now requires javascript to read any blog. The content is just static HTML most of the time! Why are they pushing so hard to hide the content if you have javascript disabled?
- biomechanica 15y agoI believe Blogger is now written using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) which is basically all javascript.
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- nextstep 15y agoHas anyone opted in and received their first report yet?
- eslachance 15y agoI opted in, and I get a notice that it can take a couple of the days for the data to appear. An email notification should be sent to me at that point.
- abraham 15y agoIt took lest then 30 minutes to get my first email.
- SystemOut 15y agoAlready received my first report. It took at most 20 minutes or so to receive the e-mail for it. One month, 1338 searches. That I was not expecting. I didn't realize I searched 50 times a day on average. I suppose it's not that high when I think about it but it caught me by surprise. It's interesting that they map all of my IP addresses that I logged in from to the companies that own the IP blocks and show that to me when I mouse over the countries in the list.
- stfu 15y agoNot sure if I should opt in. I feel like this would encourage them to "mine" me even harder.
- dmd 15y agoI opted in, and it claims that I've only sent one email. http://o7.no/GYSChU http://o7.no/GYSChU
- aresant 15y agoI love the unintentional creepiness of this quote: "Data deletion at the data source, e.g. in your Web History will have no impact on issued reports, however reports can be deleted at any time" As in - if you didn't know already, GOOG's Web History is a superficial front-facing report, all your personal data is happily sitting in GOOG's databases, is tracked, related, and available to whomever has the appropriate power to access it.
- jannes 15y agoI don't think the quoted sentence says that. It rather says that Web History is the source of the data, and even if you delete it there, it will not affect reports that have already been issued in the past. The question is what they mean with "issued reports". Are these reports that are being issued or reports that have been issued? It's a bit ambiguous, I think. But then again, English isn't my native language, so maybe I am just confusing some Grammar rules.
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- alexis-d 15y agoI think you misunderstood the phrase (which has been removed since?). I signed up (my web history has been disabled for months) and I only have data about my OSes/emails/locations, nothing about search "Web History No activity found."
- jrockway 15y agoThe idea is that if your account is compromised, the person who compromises your account can't hide their tracks from you by deleting stuff.
- darklajid 15y agoThat argument is - weak. It can be easily extended to allow storing ~everything~ ('The idea is that we can rollback any damage done to your account' or 'We can help you identify everything potentially malicious a 3rd party did by storing every detail'). How do you differentiate between legit (my account, my data) deletion requests and the bad ones? Right. Not at all.
- oskarth 15y ago> For example, if you notice sign-ins from countries where you haven’t been or devices you’ve never owned, you can change your password immediately When I was att CCC this winter I noticed that a russian ip had logged into my gmail. Turns out it was CCC who had rented a russian ip. Scared me quite a bit for a few hours and resulted in me changing my password.
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- zmanian 15y agoI would love to see a similar visualization for the entire Google Apps Domain for admins
- joshuahedlund 15y agoMy report says my 3 of my 'most contacted' emails are gmail accounts I've never heard of. Googling these email addresses returns lists of known spammers. However clicking on the emails in the report itself shows no known results in my gmail. Has anyone else seen this? Should I be concerned? What should I check for? I already re-checked that I have no forwarding addresses set; the addresses do not show up as autocomplete if I begin to type a message to one. Could it just be a bug? The numbers are "14 emails sent", so not a huge amount, but I'm slightly disturbed by this and can't find any other clues yet.
- Estragon 15y agoPretty sure this means the spammers "contacted" you. I had the same thing.
- holdupadam 15y agoI don't live in America and haven't been for years. Noticed I have logins with "tch network services" and have no idea why that would be the case. I don't use any VPN services (esp. not to login into my accounts). Anyone have any ideas?
- docjaq 15y agoI have the same issues. Any ideas yet?
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- Drbble 15y agoNice feature. Next, please let me delete activity from my history, so Google forgets they saw it.
- zengr 15y agoIs this an indirect way of (re)activating Goolgle history for our accounts?