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How To Browse Your Drunk Google Search History

Google keeps an archive of your search history. Why not take a quick look into the sewer, before flushing it all away in shame?
Google keeps an archive of your search history. Why not take a quick look into the sewer, before flushing it all away in shame?
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Here’s a terrifying experiment: Look up your earliest available Google search history. While it’s well understood that almost everything you do online is recorded by large tech companies and then shared with advertisers and the government, it might be a surprise that some of that information is easily accessible. It’s absolutely a feature you should disable right after deleting all of your records, for security and privacy purposes. But, hey, maybe take a quick look into the sewer, before flushing it

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