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Ruin My Search History | The anti-google tool - ProPrivacy

3 years ago by ray to c/privacy

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Sick of Google harvesting all your personal data? Ruin My Search History is a simple, effective & fun way to throw Google off the scent! Get started here!
IverCoder 16 points 3 years ago

British ability to turn every noun into an insult simply by adding 'absolute'

Will I ever be able to swear like a true brit?

am i lack toast and tolerant

attracted to mother why

If I learn polish will I learn how to squat like a slav?

Wow

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Slartibartfast 3 points 3 years ago

What an absolute squat.

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animist 2 points 3 years ago

I wondered the fourth one myself

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reverb 16 points 3 years ago

or you could just not use google lol

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thebardingreen 6 points 3 years ago

There used to be reasons to use Google over DuckDuckGo. But the latter's result quality has gone up while the former's has been enshittified. Still, something about old habits and how they die.

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BlinkerFluid 3 points 3 years ago

I use SearXNG. They search Google anonymously. I also like the layout better. Less bullshit. Straight to the content.

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ISOmorph 9 points 3 years ago

Simply head over to Google and click your profile in the top right (log in if needed)

Do privacy motivated people even have a google account?

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pumpsnabben 3 points 3 years ago

"Kinda" - not an account that I'm using to search with. Also, I don't use Google for searching.

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itchy_lizard 2 points 3 years ago

Yes, when someone shares a google doc with you..smh

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animist 2 points 3 years ago

I have it bc I still need to download apps via Play Store on Graphene. Don't use it for anything else tho

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wxboss 4 points 3 years ago

You can download theAurora Store and download Google Play apps without an account.

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animist 1 point 3 years ago

Awesome! Going to do that this weekend

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mustbe3to20signs 1 point 3 years ago

Aurora Store currently has problems (probably caused by google). Anonymous login sometimes fails or searches lead to a "sorry, you're rate limited" error.

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darylsun 2 points 3 years ago

I would very much like to delete my Google Account, but alas, I have to use it for work and some Very Important accounts.

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brownmustardminion 5 points 3 years ago

Unless you automate this to run a search at random intervals, wouldn’t google see a blast of searches and just ignore it as noise? I imagine they employ AI already to filter out nonsensical activity or bot activity.

Really, just stop using google. I migrated from google many years ago. It’s been great. The frustrating part is when they buy up good products and run them into the ground (Nest, Fitbit). Seriously fuck google.

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GrappleHat 5 points 3 years ago

Can my girlfriend be pregnant if I kissed her?

What to do with my stacked up toilet papers?

what counts as fat

Can birds fly backwards?

Ha ha ha ha!!!

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Essential7220 4 points 3 years ago

Why not use DuckDuckGo or Brave search engine?

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Librerian 2 points 3 years ago

What about Qwant?

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itsmikeyd 2 points 3 years ago

I don't Qwant to

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mrmanager -2 points 3 years ago

Or you can pay 10 bucks for Kagi and enjoy privacy.

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Makussu 4 points 3 years ago

Whats Kagi?

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ADHDefy 0 points 3 years ago

It's a premium, subscription-based search engine. Basically, you just pay them monthly instead of getting ads.

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Makussu 8 points 3 years ago

Lol. Not even open source. Just use a public Searxng instance

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