Friday poll: How long do you save your browsing history for?
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My prediction for this poll: Perfect split between data hoarders who save everything and privacy paranoiacs who save nothing.
(I am the former)
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I save my history forever.
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@stardepp So you’re more the Sean Connery type.
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@luetage said in Friday poll: How long do you save your browsing history for?:
@stardepp So you’re more the Sean Connery type.
No, I don't like Sean Connery at all. Why should it be bad to save your browsing history forever, privacy is very important to Vivaldi after all.
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I clear the history every month, in mobile after every session.
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@LonM said in Friday poll: How long do you save your browsing history for?:
My prediction for this poll: Perfect split between data hoarders who save everything and privacy paranoiacs who save nothing.
(I am the former)
I used to delete my history regularly. But since Vivaldi came out, I decided to just keep everything. I haven't deleted history since the first tech preview.
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@ugly I am the later. I may clear browsing history several times a day depending on what I'm doing.
OFF TOPIC How's Mint20 doing for you? It seemed too much overhead for my 7 yr old laptop. (AMD something/4GB RAM/500 GB HDD) -
@greybeard said in Friday poll: How long do you save your browsing history for?:
@ugly I am the later. I may clear browsing history several times a day depending on what I'm doing.
There are some things that I make sure to do in a private window. Usually when I log into sites, especially banking sites, I do it in a private window. So all the history isn't there. I just eventually decided there wasn't much benefit in regularly deleting history.
OFF TOPIC How's Mint20 doing for you? It seemed too much overhead for my 7 yr old laptop. (AMD something/4GB RAM/500 GB HDD)
Mint 20 performs well for me. But my desktop is fairly new (Ryzen 5 3600). I have an old laptop that's about 10 years old that runs it. But I barely use the laptop. Mint seems fine, it's just most of the programs feel sluggish on the old laptop. I can't say I noticed any drop-off in performance from older versions of Mint.
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@ugly 17.3 was the last stable Mint I could use on my old laptop. After trying 18.x I gave up and moved to PCLinux. Still slow but stable as a rock...
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One month.
For performance and because my history searches didn't go beyond than one month. -
A lot of times, I need to access things from about three months back. Sometimes (on rare occasions) I wish it was longer, but three usually works.
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‘Forever’, though I wish I could search only through last week in the QC & address field.
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Usually just for the session, but sometimes when I'm feeling dirty, I'll leave it for a whole day
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I have always, since the mid-1990s, always cleared my history after every browsing session - and seeing as it's even easier to do in modern browsers, I now go even further and clear it multiple times per session (e.g. log in to email, have a quick look, log back out, clear all history/cache/cookies, browse to next site).
It originally stemmed from the fact that back in the days of Windows for Workgroups, or multiuser Solaris machines with tiny home directories, every last kb of disk space counted and I couldn't see the point of saving clutter and rubbish. If I needed to save web page data, I printed it or copy-pasted it into a StarOffice / Word 6 document. If a site was worth visiting again, I remembered its address or just bookmarked it to be sure. Then a bit later on of course, stuff like Bonzi Buddy, Comet Cursors, ABetterInternet, Gator and other such scum became a "thing", which paved the way for the parasite-infested mess we know as the web today. So I've kept up the practice. After all, it doesn't take a genius to look at a web page and decide what a relevant ad would be, with no knowledge/tracking of the user necessary... and if it's not collected/stored/aggregated in the first place, it can't be lost in a data-breach.
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@jamesbeardmore said in Friday poll: How long do you save your browsing history for?:
Bonzi Buddy, Comet Cursors, ABetterInternet, Gator
Such memories ^^ [Warning: Don't watch if you have photosensible epilepsy]
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A Week.
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@LonM said in Friday poll: How long do you save your browsing history for?:
My prediction for this poll: Perfect split between data hoarders who save everything and privacy paranoiacs who save nothing.
It was actually a perfect split between those, who keep the data forever and those, who have it set to the default 3 months. Followed by "Session only" people in 3rd place.
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3 months is enough for me so that the database is still manageable -fast search, no corruption of any kind-.
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Normally I save the history for 1 month, visiting between 800-1200 pages/day
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