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Comment by sneak

1 year ago

It does; Google is the default search in Safari.

I meant browsing history. I don’t care about my search history. Even though these days I use the paid ChatGPT with the web search tool most of the time. Google is becoming more useless every month

  • Chrome Sync (i.e. saving your history + everything else to the cloud so it syncs to all your devices) is an optional setting. Microsoft Edge has the same thing under another name. Safari does too.

    • Google also uses your browsing history to create a profile for advertising

      https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155451...

      And Apple provides end to end encryption of browsing history so it can’t decrypt your browsing history

      https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/03/25/whats-in...

      > What’s interesting about the Apple decision is that it appears to explicitly separate browsing history and bookmarks, rather than lumping them into a single take-it-or-leave-it package. Apple doesn’t claim to provide any end-to-end encryption guarantees whatsoever for bookmarks: presumably someone who resets your iCloud account password can get those. But your browsing history is protected in a way that even Apple won’t be able to access, in case the FBI show up with a subpoena.

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