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October 17, 2011 10:57 pm GMT
Late Friday evening, I tweeted out that, for some reason unbeknownst to me, Google's Web History tracking "feature" (the one that keeps tabs on every search you've made for sake of tailoring ads to your tastes and/or creeping you out) had seemingly been enabled on my account. This wouldn't be too strange in most cases as an opt-out service, Web History is enabled for everyone by default. The problem? I'd manually disabled it years ago.Following my tweet, a few people responded in tune; they were certain they'd disabled it long ago but sure enough, there was all of their history going back anywhere from 6 months to a year and a half. An odd coincidence, I assumed and then I woke up this morning to an inbox full of people all saying the same thing.
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/yem_ss32NC0/
Think Youve Disabled Googles Web History Tracking? Check Again.
Late Friday evening, I tweeted out that, for some reason unbeknownst to me, Google's Web History tracking "feature" (the one that keeps tabs on every search you've made for sake of tailoring ads to your tastes and/or creeping you out) had seemingly been enabled on my account. This wouldn't be too strange in most cases as an opt-out service, Web History is enabled for everyone by default. The problem? I'd manually disabled it years ago.Following my tweet, a few people responded in tune; they were certain they'd disabled it long ago but sure enough, there was all of their history going back anywhere from 6 months to a year and a half. An odd coincidence, I assumed and then I woke up this morning to an inbox full of people all saying the same thing.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/yem_ss32NC0/
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