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<blockquote data-quote="Handsome Creepy Eel" data-source="post: 1154974" data-attributes="member: 1362">RE: NYT: &quot;If You Let Boys Be Boys, They will Murder their Fathers &amp; Sleep Wit...Not directly - you simply visiting a search engine tells them nothing other than what you're searching for right then. However, since you visit many Google Analytics-equipped websites every day, Google will have a general profile of you based on your browsing habits and then they can suggest search terms to you based on that profile.Incognito mode will partially stop this because cookies and scripts get deleted after you close the browser, but that's not why I was using it. I was simply at an office and didn't want to leave a trail. For sustained untrackable browsing, use an adblocker addon. You can't always remember to use incognito, and it's a hassle to live without any cookies at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Handsome Creepy Eel, post: 1154974, member: 1362"] [b]RE: NYT: "If You Let Boys Be Boys, They will Murder their Fathers & Sleep Wit...[/b] Not directly - you simply visiting a search engine tells them nothing other than what you're searching for right then. However, since you visit many Google Analytics-equipped websites every day, Google will have a general profile of you based on your browsing habits and then they can suggest search terms to you based on that profile. Incognito mode [i]will[/i] partially stop this because cookies and scripts get deleted after you close the browser, but that's not why I was using it. I was simply at an office and didn't want to leave a trail. For sustained untrackable browsing, use an adblocker addon. You can't always remember to use incognito, and it's a hassle to live without [i]any[/i] cookies at all. [/QUOTE]

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