1 Topic by dagnee (edited by dagnee 2017-08-28 20:25:12)

Topic: The past is never the past

You might see my posts disappear from your threads. I am trying to erase my online foot print as much as I can by deleting search engine content I find connected to the name dagnee. So...if my posts disappear from your forum threads, it's only because I found a link to them in Yahoo, Bing, or Google search engines. I am not ashamed of what I posted, most of it is pretty generic, and I am not angry at you.

This writing group is my safe place. I do not want people I've pissed off 6 or 7 years ago to link me in anyway to TNBW. This place is as sacred to me as any church.

So...if I suddenly disappear from your thread...it's because the thread is public and I found my name linked to it in a search engine.

dags smile

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2 Reply by B Douglas Slack (edited by B Douglas Slack 2017-08-28 20:28:29)

Re: The past is never the past

I know of what you speak, Dags. I've found a few of mine also. Most of them from so far back I failed to remember what they referred to. Some were on a forum that doesn't exist any more. Go figure.

As for erasing everything you've ever Google-searched, it is possible. You have to go to your Google settings and follow paths down, but you eventually can find the button that says "Erase all past search terms". Click that and you effectively start again after making Google forget everything you've searched for in the past. There is another check box you can set that says "Never remember searches". if you check that, Google won't remember anything you searched for -- thus it can't give you any targeted ads.

Bill

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