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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by curiousgal on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:54PM (#11880398)
Most Third World governments control ISPs and DNS queries can be easily monitored but whether those are implicative or not depends on where the content embedded in the search results is hosted/served from.

Also, even if Google is fully HTTPS, if a query returns images hosted on unsecured websites, those urls will be plainly visible and hence implicative.

Edit: The embedded thumbnails are actually encrypted as pointed by the comment below.

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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by manufacturious on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:59PM (#11880434)
I was curious and just checked -- until you click on an image in google's search results to see it fullsize in the semi-lightbox, you're actually getting the "thumbnail" sent from google as a b64 encoded string
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by curiousgal on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:10PM (#11880502)
Well, that's good news. thank you for checking, I stand corrected.
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by luke-stanley on Sunday June 12, 2016 @03:53PM (#11889931)
I suspect it might just be represented that way in the browser, and that it's not sent that way.
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by manufacturious on Monday June 13, 2016 @04:13PM (#11897168)
Interesting thought, but wouldn't it kinda have to be done that way? Otherwise you'd see missing images on image SERPs, and you'd see the delay of thumbnails loading due to slower source servers.
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by mkj on Friday June 10, 2016 @09:01PM (#11881397)
Browsers doing url prefetching for top results would also leak some information?
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by mamon on Saturday June 11, 2016 @03:41AM (#11882525)
So now we consider US to be Third World country? :)
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by rosaldo on Sunday June 12, 2016 @06:46AM (#11887528)
wondered about the same thing
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