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ray ( ray@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

Ruin My Search History | The anti-google tool - ProPrivacy

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Ruin My Search History | The anti-google tool - ProPrivacy

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ray ( ray@lemmy.ml )  to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago
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Sick of Google harvesting all your personal data? Ruin My Search History is a simple, effective & fun way to throw Google off the scent! Get started here!
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  • IverCoder ( IverCoder@lemmy.ml ) 
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    British ability to turn every noun into an insult simply by adding ‘absolute’

    Will I ever be able to swear like a true brit?

    am i lack toast and tolerant

    attracted to mother why

    If I learn polish will I learn how to squat like a slav?

    Wow

    • Slartibartfast ( Slartibartfast@beehaw.org ) 
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      What an absolute squat.

    • animist ( animist@lemmy.one ) 
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      I wondered the fourth one myself

  • ISOmorph ( ISOmorph@feddit.de ) 
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    Simply head over to Google and click your profile in the top right (log in if needed)

    Do privacy motivated people even have a google account?

    • pumpsnabben ( pumpsnabben@beehaw.org ) 
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      “Kinda” - not an account that I’m using to search with. Also, I don’t use Google for searching.

    • darylsun ( darylsun@beehaw.org ) 
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      deleted by creator

    • animist ( animist@lemmy.one ) 
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      I have it bc I still need to download apps via Play Store on Graphene. Don’t use it for anything else tho

      • wxboss ( wxboss@beehaw.org ) 
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        deleted by creator

        • animist ( animist@lemmy.one ) 
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          Awesome! Going to do that this weekend

        • mustbe3to20signs ( mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de ) 
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          Aurora Store currently has problems (probably caused by google). Anonymous login sometimes fails or searches lead to a “sorry, you’re rate limited” error.

    • itchy_lizard ( itchy_lizard@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Yes, when someone shares a google doc with you…smh

    • cavemeat ( cavemeat@beehaw.org ) 
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      Yes unfortunately

  • GrappleHat ( GrappleHat@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Can my girlfriend be pregnant if I kissed her?

    What to do with my stacked up toilet papers?

    what counts as fat

    Can birds fly backwards?

    Ha ha ha ha!!!

  • brownmustardminion ( brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Unless you automate this to run a search at random intervals, wouldn’t google see a blast of searches and just ignore it as noise? I imagine they employ AI already to filter out nonsensical activity or bot activity.

    Really, just stop using google. I migrated from google many years ago. It’s been great. The frustrating part is when they buy up good products and run them into the ground (Nest, Fitbit). Seriously fuck google.

  • Essential7220 ( Essential7220@beehaw.org ) 
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    Why not use DuckDuckGo or Brave search engine?

    • Librerian ( Librerian@beehaw.org ) 
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      What about Qwant?

      • itsmikeyd ( itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml ) 
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        I don’t Qwant to

      • IEatChickens ( IEatChickens@feddit.nl ) 
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        Or Startpage?

  • mrmanager ( mrmanager@lemmy.today ) 
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    Or you can pay 10 bucks for Kagi and enjoy privacy.

    • Makussu ( Makussu@feddit.de ) 
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      Whats Kagi?

      • ADHDefy ( ADHDefy@kbin.social ) 
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        It’s a premium, subscription-based search engine. Basically, you just pay them monthly instead of getting ads.

        • Makussu ( Makussu@feddit.de ) 
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          Lol. Not even open source. Just use a public Searxng instance

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