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Frog-Admin wrote:
> In article <42458c55.463198@news1.sympatico.ca>, Mike wrote:
>>On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:42:04 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>><newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>>
>>>TheNewsGuy(Mike wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see that Google keeps a "history" of my searches - If I click in the
>>>> search window a popup of past searches appears. Is it possible to
>>>> clear them and keep this private?
>>
>>>Looking for some pr0n again? Just kidding...
>>>
>>>In most browsers you can erase and/or disable suggestions for text input.
>>>In Firefox, look under Prefs -> Privacy. With most browsers you can
>>>scroll down the list and hit delete if your want to 'localise' the effect
>>>of deletion.
>>
>>The Firefox "TOOLS/Options->Privacy/Saved Form Information" worked.
>>I thought Google might have a way to set that in their preferences.
>>(and it wasn't "prOn" - just personal stuff)
>>
>>Thanks,
>
> I would also suggest deleting the google cookies from all of your browsers
> on a regular basis. That cookie contains a unique identifier that google
> can use to tie all of your searches together... keywords used, results
> returned, links clicked on, date and time stamps. etc, etc.
>
> Deleting the cookie means they will just set a new one, but it breaks the
> data chain. You should delete google cookie at least once a week....
> daily if you're searching a lot of kiddy prOn or really nasty stuff
>
>
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Why even start with the garbage? *smile* If you choose to stick with PGP,
respect it. *sigh*
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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com
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