A person's browser history is a window into their online Identity.

[Tungbulu]

Good day Boys and Girls.
I really don't know if this the right place to post this, but please forgive me if it's not.

A person's browser history tells a lot of Histories about the person, his interests and his routine, as well as other aspects of his life.
I was just going through my browser history today and it opened my eyes to so many things I had almost forgotten about myself, things I found really interesting in the past, but due to growth and evolution, I do not find them intriguing anymore, and being reminded of those things has its own special ways of showing you how much you've grown and advanced in your chosen field and also other areas of your life.

It's just like going through some old family photos, or group elementary, high school or college photos and you can't just help but smile because you've seen how much you've grown, how far you've gone towards achieving your goal and how close you are to you goals.

The reason for this thread is because I would love to share my experience about through my browser history way back to 2020 when I started this crypto Journey.
I remember I'd always stay up all night just doing researches about Bitcoin and how it works, how I can become successful through bitcoin, because I've been hearing about it and didn't really understand the modus operandi of Bitcoin. I was a total newbie without anyone to guide me through the process, so I'd always research and gather lots of fact about Bitcoin. It was through one of my random researchs that I learned about this forum,  on the 13th of July 2022 I registered an account but wasn't really contributing.


I spent months reading threads and learning more and gathering various types of knowledge about Bitcoin but I never contributed because I'm not the kinda person that likes to engage in online community discussions or arguments, the knowledge I was acquiring from here was enough for me and has been quite sufficient to guide me through my bitcoin journey.

Months after I registered the account, I left the forum for a while, while I focused on other forms of researchs about Bitcoin.
My main focus has always been about the Blockchain Technology. I've been pretty curious from day one to unfold all the potentials that Blockchain Tech has at its disposal and I've learnt quite much, and on my next thread here, I'll be sharing my findings so far about the Blockchain Tech to be discussed here, so it'll be an avenue for learning for me and others who also share the same curiosity and interest as i do.

So I bumped across something online that reminded me of the forum few weeks ago and I decided to revisit the Bitcointalk community and also decided to start interacting too...
I just got to remember and see just how much I've grown and evolved in my bitcoin journey, and even when I'm not yet gotten to my desired destination, I'm still proud of myself because i know I've come really far and I'm very close to achieving my set goal as a Bitcoiner.

[Catenaccio]

You can not clean it because Google stored your data forever. Even your deleted web browsing history, emails, whatever, they can have terms that after 30 days of deletion, you will lose those documents forever and they will not support you to recover such deleted data.

However, on Google side, they store it and did you read about the lawsuit against Google, that they stored users' web surfing history even in Igconito mode?

If you are serious with privacy, do it at the start.

[Felicity_Tide]

Firstly, I must commend your effort for sharing the beginning of your journey in Crypto and BTT. Secondly, I can't tell where this post fits, but I suggest you think about taking it to the Beginners and Help board to trigger replies from newbies who keep track of their browsing history.

Also, seeing that you still have all your crypto history on your browser is quite surprising. You should have known that companies sell customer data and even keep it for other reasons. I personally clear my browsing history and even wipe out password related data occasionally. Keeping all history makes searching faster, but don't choose it over privacy.

[Pidgeon]

Thx for the tip, did the same and just realized it's been a while since I downloaded fury porn, only 10 hits this month!

[Smilevictorobinna]

The Bitcoin journey is one journey of my life I find so interesting I moved from one stage to the other, I remembered saving for 7 months as a student just to invest on Bitcoin it was hard and difficult those times but I'm happy I went through all those stages.

I joined Bitcointalk December 2021 but I never knew what to contribute because I had little or no knowledge of Bitcoin so I lift and I went to do more research about Bitcoin, I went to seminars in other to know more about Bitcoin.
However it was in this forum I got all the knowledge I needed about Bitcointalk and also how to express myself.
This forum helped me also in being able to create intelligent speech, my Bitcoin journey was the best part of my life and I cherish every stage I went through.  

[Faisal2202]

You can not clean it because Google stored your data forever. Even your deleted web browsing history, emails, whatever, they can have terms that after 30 days of deletion, you will lose those documents forever and they will not support you to recover such deleted data.

However, on Google side, they store it and did you read about the lawsuit against Google, that they stored users' web surfing history even in Igconito mode?

If you are serious with privacy, do it at the start.

Hmmm, I think you don't get the main point of OP post, as he is not complaining about Google history, or that there are ways to store your data, while he is just making a thread to share his experience and time in the crypto industry and how he gets to know about his account on BTT which he forgot but came to know about when he visited his history page. Although the title of the post is a definitely giving the vibe that the OP will talk against browser history. But nah OP has different plans haha.

Well, you are also right in your position. Speaking of Incognito mode, I don't read any policies but I already knew they are storing our historical data from that site too. Because if we can see the incognito history by ourselves then why they can't. And you are right about the privacy step that we should keep it in mind from the start and use tools and browsers accordingly.

[cabron]

It looks like OP is learning crypto and at the same time politics. It's no longer unusual because BTC or crypto is related to politics. There is no way you can set aside politics regarding crypto because the world is governed by how much power a country has regarding money.

Could it be critical if Google identifies you as a Bitcoiner who is aware of the politics going on between China vs the US and Ukraine war? It probably depends on what you are posting online. Using the TOR browser is an option.

[dunfida]

It looks like OP is learning crypto and at the same time politics. It's no longer unusual because BTC or crypto is related to politics. There is no way you can set aside politics regarding crypto because the world is governed by how much power a country has regarding money.

Could it be critical if Google identifies you as a Bitcoiner who is aware of the politics going on between China vs the US and Ukraine war? It probably depends on what you are posting online. Using the TOR browser is an option.

Hiding yourself online is somewhat not that give out that 100% assurance that you are safe or having that privacy on which we do know or something casual that these companies are really that tracking us
which it turns out that we do believe that it would really be just that for the sake of tracking out on what are those peoples interest and be bombarded up by tons of ads on which relating on what you have searched online.
As long you arent that leaking out those important informations about your identity or personal things then i dont really see that much for this to be a big issue or something that you should really be in concern.

Also, i would really be saying that even if people would really be thinking up about privacy or anonymity but it wont really be resulting that they would really be changing up on using up TOR on this case.
They wont care about using up Chrome because user experience is much really that different. 

[angrybirdy]

Firstly, I must commend your effort for sharing the beginning of your journey in Crypto and BTT. Secondly, I can't tell where this post fits, but I suggest you think about taking it to the Beginners and Help board to trigger replies from newbies who keep track of their browsing history.

Also, seeing that you still have all your crypto history on your browser is quite surprising. You should have known that companies sell customer data and even keep it for other reasons. I personally clear my browsing history and even wipe out password related data occasionally. Keeping all history makes searching faster, but don't choose it over privacy.

You have the patience to save and not clean the browser history, for me it's like I clean it annually for a fresh start every year, but if I look or remember the old history on my old phone, it's the same as you, year 2017 at first I started to get interested in bitcoin and I read only articles about btc every time I did research on google. nothing, it's just fun to remember, you also have a point, sometimes we can better recognize what type of person an individual is based on what we can see in their browser history.

[peter0425]

A person's browser history tells a lot of Histories about the person, his interests and his routine, as well as other aspects of his life.

I agree it’s probably one of the most private things in life and many people would not be very keen on sharing their browser history.

I was just going through my browser history today and it opened my eyes to so many things I had almost forgotten about myself, things I found really interesting in the past, but due to growth and evolution, I do not find them intriguing anymore, and being reminded of those things has its own special ways of showing you how much you've grown and advanced in your chosen field and also other areas of your life.

I too like reminiscing about the past and just see how much I have changed as a person. It’s good to reflect no matter at what stage of your life you have changed.

I just got to remember and see just how much I've grown and evolved in my bitcoin journey, and even when I'm not yet gotten to my desired destination, I'm still proud of myself because i know I've come really far and I'm very close to achieving my set goal as a Bitcoiner.

It would be best if you had shared what you have learned to us and how you were as a beginner and how would you advise beginners now. Since you have grown, we’d be interested to heard what were these growths.

[Queentoshi]

you also have a point, sometimes we can better recognize what type of person an individual is based on what we can see in their browser history.

If you go through the browser history of someone and you see some kind of disturbing searches in the browser history of that person, search history like a search to find out a method to steal cryptocurrency for example, it should be a warning to be careful of such persons.

However, on Google side, they store it and did you read about the lawsuit against Google, that they stored users' web surfing history even in Igconito mode?

I had this idea that incognito was safer, Can I ask if this data is accessible to any other person asides google? if not, does it not mean then that incognito mode is still safe, because asides google and you, no one else can access it.

[SatoPrincess]

A person's browser history tells a lot of Histories about the person, his interests and his routine, as well as other aspects of his life.
I was just going through my browser history today and it opened my eyes to so many things I had almost forgotten about myself, things I found really interesting in the past, but due to growth and evolution, I do not find them intriguing anymore, and being reminded of those things has its own special ways of showing you how much you've grown and advanced in your chosen field and also other areas of your life.

The sooner we realize that everything we do online leaves a trail, the more conscious we will be about our privacy. For privacy, use TOR when browsing on the internet. It’s not today news that tech companies sell user data to other companies. Google has been accused of this in the past. See here: Topic: {Beware}: Google accused of giving personal data to advertisers

[lovesmayfamilis]

As far as I know, the browsing history loads the browser too much, which makes it work slower. But preserving history for four years is something like a Darwin Award. Having saved all its cookies and cache, the browser was supposed to smoke from the stress of the next page load. But you might think that the OP hasn’t touched this browser for several years. Then yes, going back to history is indeed nostalgic.

[kentrolla]

Who saves browser history nowadays? People are even scared to browse in incognito but yeah our browser history can shed a light on our past just like the Facebook memories does but it's highly recommended to clear the browsing history as people sometimes saves their password and have sensitive information in the laptop/computer which could be at the risk of being compromised.

[Upgrade00]

I'll do one up on the topic title, your online activity tells pretty much everything about your real life. Websites which track us through cookies that track our actions on other sites and the data we give them ourselves, can tell everything about us. For example, they can sell that data to politicians as it can accurately predict which percentage of people will vote for or against a service. Online trackers have a better idea of our tastes and interests than we do.

I know this isn't a thread on privacy, but it's a reminder to limit the access you give to your device as much as possible. Disable all non essential cookies and clear your cache often.

[Dunamisx]

If you want to be a professional by the way of being a bitcoiner, then you have to realized that you will need to make use of your wallet on airgapped device, which has no connection to the internet for more safety, one also have to maintain a privacy level whereby his device is not made available or opened for the public to have access, as well as avoiding the use of unsolicited links online.

[leonair]

I was surprised to see the history, the previous history is still in his device. The time I put into cryptocurrency seems like you know a lot or are well-educated. I am looking forward to seeing your blockchain expertise and results so far, I hope to share. All the best to you to reach your destination as a bitcoin. Good for you since you are bringing up politics and crypto, as I think crypto and politics are interdependent.

[Cryptoprincess101]

Basically i don't keep my browsing history for too long because it slows down the effectiveness of the browser so after leaving my browsing history for like a week or two I do clear everything off including my passwords, cookies and cache and when I do that the browser becomes fast again. Don't think there's any need to leave the numerous past browsing history, if you open a page and you wish to access it later on in the future bookmarking it is the best way or to just save the page and access it whenever you want to instead of leaving the browsing history without clearing them off.

[sokani]

Sometimes, you might travel to a different state and you'd receive a text message to vote for a particular candidate in the state election and you'd be like who knows I'm here and how was my phone number gotten?

Surprised right? Google steals your data and sells it to big corporations and the truth is we don't know how much data they can collect and what they can do with it. If you really value your privacy, use privacy tools like Tor browser and Tails OS on your device.

[letteredhub]

Op, great job you have done and this reminds me about people who do sell off their phones and other gadgets with having to format it completely riding it off every data from it system storage. People we sell our phone to could through our browser history unknown to us get in vital informations about us and they could use it for phishing scams against us and if we're unlucky we could end up losing money to them. And you be wondering how do this scammer got to know so much about me that he/she was able to get to me.