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A comment on Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google account suspended today?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by protomyth on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:53PM (#11880388)
There is a small difference between ruining ones search history and being brought to the attention of whatever authority is watching[1]. It does seem like a https://xkcd.com/576/ situation applied to search.

1) I would bet our web filter would be sending me some reports

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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by nqzero on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:55PM (#11880405)
what part of "ruin" don't you understand ?
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by protomyth on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:03PM (#11880470)
Ruining your search history not your livelihood.
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by SerLava on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:12PM (#11880896)
"ruin" is completely vague, and you had no idea what it meant until you found out what it ended up meaning.

Funny would be googling fetish porn, not funny would be banning you from international travel.

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