How not to unGoogle: History Removal
Removing history does not work. Public unsearchability creates a false sense of safety. Just because you are not searchable by the public domain does not equate unsearchability.
Put yourself in the shoe of Google: if you had just spent a whole lot of resources to dig up all these information, are you really going to dispose all of them that easily?
Most likely not. If I were Google, I would be happy to remove your result from the public domain to keep peace with you.
Tada! Due to questionable actions committed by you to fulfill your very desire to remove data, I have just identified why I get into the search business at the first place — to mine important intelligence data that no one else has a copy of.
Thanks to your help, I have just identified what you considered to be most damaging to your credibility.
I’m sure that businesses will pay me tons of money just to get their hands onto my treasure chest.
2024-05-11
So how do I do it? I keep my privacy by being very public.
This is hard to explain, but there’s a reason that I’m everywhere.
How not to unGoogle: History Removal
/ Data Security + Privacy / SML
Revisions
- 2007-09-16 R1
- 2024-05-10 R2