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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by Pica_soO on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:12PM (#11880518)
Google is not fully https - its the road customer<-> google that is fully https - internal traffic is not encrypted. And internal traffic goes worldwide for google.
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by PeCaN on Friday June 10, 2016 @07:11PM (#11880891)
Google's internal traffic is (supposedly¹) encrypted as of 2013.

¹ I have no reason to doubt this is true, but AFAIK the only evidence is that Google said it would be, in response to NSA/GHCQ's MUSCULAR program.

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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone use ruinmysearchhistory and get Google... by kaerast on Saturday June 11, 2016 @02:38AM (#11882371)
I don't know if it still works, but Google used to support network providers force non-ssl searches using DNS poisoning. BT's WiFi offering used to do this, which is one of the reasons I stopped using it.
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