Re:Google Web/Search History Disable Does Nothing (2014)
by 2T1Qka0rEiPr on Friday January 20, 2017 @10:59AM
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Not that I'm a fan of big brother, but I think there's a genuine difference between logging all requests and logging and attaching to your user profile all requests? I know that they could infer pretty reliably back to you with just the request information, but I'm not sure that "does nothing" is strictly true here.
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Re:Google Web/Search History Disable Does Nothing (2014)
by Bartweiss on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:45AM
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Anecdotally, I've gotten curious and messed with this setting. I'm pretty confident (>80%) that I could see a difference in what ads I was served, with logging-disabled searches not influencing my Google ads they way logged searches did.
Honestly, this article felt a bit FUD to me. Google's privacy text never led me to believe they would purge all record of no-log searches, just that they wouldn't attach them to my primary profile. As far as I can tell that's still what they're doing.