You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works

Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by makomk on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:43AM (#13994028)

Also, people were talking about buying Congress's search history, which of course ISPs don't even have - only Google does and their ability to sell it was not in any way affected by this rule that covered only ISPs.

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by bigbugbag on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:40AM (#13994270)

Those people are confused, at least for searchinternethistory.com the plan is to buy internet history and make it public and searchable.

Then again, I'm pretty sure google does not know about what people search on bing or yahoo, and it seems to me that what you search on google appears in the URL so your ISP would know.

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by couchand on Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:26AM (#13994452)

> what you search on google appears in the URL so your ISP would know.

Well no, Google searches go over HTTPS, so everything but the host is encrypted.

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by bigbugbag on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:56PM (#14008695)

Thank you for fixing my shameful mistake, don't know what I was thinking there. my bad!

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Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any... by bigbugbag on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:00PM (#14008721)

Too late to edit so I'm replying to myself because I made a mistake here. Google search has enabled https following the snowden revelations so the ISP is only able to tell one has been to google search website at a specific time but not what one has searched.

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