Ask HN: Do you delete your browsing history?
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I keep all of it, and go to incognito mode for anything I don't want saved. No, not porn. But things like searching for a book because it annoys the hell out of me when FB/Amazon/random blogs start recommending that book 11 times because I looked at it once on Amazon.
Yes, every two days or so. An hygiene measure to prevent "history detection attacks".
The routine consists into deleting everywith but the passwords. Actually "chrome://settings/clearBrowserData" is even in my fav bar.
Not just the history, I personally delete everything every time I close the browser, if something is worth saving I bookmark it or I make a .txt in Documents for later review. Also I pretty much don't login anywhere anyway.
I also explicitly save stuff I plan to use later, but you can't always predict that in advance.
I delete kewkies from time to time :>
Ahem.
Sometimes I clear cache and cookies, ye.
But you said
> browser history
So. Let. Me. Tell. You. This.
Why in the F-CK do some browsers like Opera seem to not have functioning History? What I mean is... you go to a site, say poopshit dot com. You compulsively impulsively whatever go to your nervous tick ridiculous habit site that just happens automatically before you're even aware of what you're doing like a monkey drinking nectar from a sippy thing in a lab, and then you go
"Oh wait. What was that site I was on before? I think it was Poop Shit Dot Com"
You click History - literally a first class menu item they are bragging about a feature that doesn't even work.
You click History.
It expands. Guess what's not there? The F7IOP7^$35345MO mf'iing god damn site you just went to is not on the list !
Upsets me mildly.
Ahem.
Sometimes I clear cache and cookies, ye.
But you said
> browser history
So. Let. Me. Tell. You. This.
Why in the F-CK do some browsers like Opera seem to not have functioning History? What I mean is... you go to a site, say poopshit dot com. You compulsively impulsively whatever go to your nervous tick ridiculous habit site that just happens automatically before you're even aware of what you're doing like a monkey drinking nectar from a sippy thing in a lab, and then you go
"Oh wait. What was that site I was on before? I think it was Poop Shit Dot Com"
You click History - literally a first class menu item they are bragging about a feature that doesn't even work.
You click History.
It expands. Guess what's not there? The F7IOP7^$35345MO mf'iing god damn site you just went to is not on the list !
Upsets me mildly.
That said, it also makes me a bit nervous having it all there, especially synced to my Firefox account, for some hypothetical hacker, or discovery process, or who knows what.
Got me thinking, I wouldn't be surprised if HN is as split between history savers and deleters as I am internally. Curious how you all handle it.