My search history is permanently deleted every time I close the browser. So no, I wouldn't be embarassed at the 20 or so searches I did today
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2024
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"JFC so many searches related to elisp and linux..."
Assuming it magically can get my search history despite incognito, vpn etc I'd probably just ask them not to look at it, Embarrassing maybe but nothing that would get me in any trouble and anyone whose opinion I care about I trust wouldn't want to see it anyway
Only a scrub would search something embarrassing and not delete it afterwards, or just use a web browser that deletes it every session
or they live alone and never share their devices with anyone.
or they live openly & freely and DGAF what other people think about their browsing history
But now you've put a song in my head ๐คฃ
News-related stuff mainly. With a healthy dose of helldivers 2 questions recently. So, no, not really.
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Oh shit, wrong place.
Nah. I'd probably delete a fair amount so they weren't embarrassed themselves though.
And I learned by watching the news in cases like Jared fogle, nothing can actually ever be deleted from hard drives & clouds. Even everything we've ever posted to Reddit and thought we deleted it, everything is always available somewhere for the experts to find.
Stuff can absolutly be deleted. If you overwrite the stuff that was previously saved there it's gone. The point is that cloud providers often just don't delete your stuff. And whatever you do your network provider allways knows what you search for.
Do we know for sure that Reddit doesn't keep an edit history for comments?
Oh most social media probably keeps a copy. But your search history is usually stored locally, so it's possible to delete that. Your internet provider only has a history of all sites that where visited via your internet connection and is unable to backtrack something to a specific device.
Weeell, Jared was looking at cp which is illegal and unethical... that's a bit of a difference situation.
Yes I know, my point is that nothing is ever deleted.