Ask HN: Do you delete your browsing history?

4 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by tempestn

Item id: 49060245

4 Comments

sixthDot

30 minutes ago

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.

bluebic

20 minutes ago

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.

eahm

4 hours ago

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.

tempestn

an hour ago

I also explicitly save stuff I plan to use later, but you can't always predict that in advance.