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What if your great-gandkids found your internet history?

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    #32
    mariaalice
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    A cousin who is big into history found my mother inter cert result it was very surreal but interesting she was dead by the time it came to light so we couldn't ask her about it.

    It was from a time when even doing the internet would have been unusual as most left at 14.


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    #33
    [Deleted User]
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    fryup wrote: »
    no :confused:

    so what's the surefire way to delete it?

    I'm only guessing, but I would imagine deleting your google account, and then bombing Google's data centres, to be sure to be sure.


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    #34
    Wibbs
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I havent been logged out of google since, maybe, 2012.

    I bet almost nobody logs out when doing a search. This is all going on your google 'record'
    I've used duckduckgo since that date. I've a google account only because of youtube, but have it set to full feck off mode, don't thank vids and my subs are decidedly mundane and every time I close my browser(daily because I shut down my laptop every night) it scrubs cookies and the like. Almost never browse the web by phone and even there location services and the like are off and I don't use android. Takes minutes to set up that sorta thing, not out of any paranoia, I'm way too boring to be paranoid, just don't want some cubicle drone in a data centre crunching my numbers. Feck that.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #35
    Ubbquittious
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    They will have fun reading all the datasheets for ancient electronic components and theyll be laughing at the ridiculously poor specs and wondering if the poor bastard (me) was actually trying to build something with them


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    #36
    [Deleted User]
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    Its not like finding a cherished box of letters

    Itll be a huge digital scrapheap of millions of disconnected thoughts that will defy anyones interest beyond two or three minutes


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    #37
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    I'm only guessing, but I would imagine deleting your google account, and then bombing Google's data centres, to be sure to be sure.

    does Google have access to people's browsing history even after said people delete it through their browsers??


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    #38
    [Deleted User]
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    They'll laugh at my reverence to brands like Sinclair (zx spectrum) a rubber keyboard, later Atari ST.


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    #39
    [Deleted User]
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    I’d be fine with it, as I don’t have an addiction to gonzo pornography like so many around here. There’s something so cringe inducing about lads boasting about watching porn and interfering with themselves. Most of them won’t procreate though so all good there.


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    #40
    beauf
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    fryup wrote: »
    does Google have access to people's browsing history even after said people delete it through their browsers??

    Yes. The history is on their servers and often on the ISP and routers its passed through on the way. Even if you use VPNs and TOR networks they can watch the end points and join the dots. If they wanted to.


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