• lath@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Why clear your browser history if you’ve got nothing to hide?”

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        2 months ago

        Well, some people read something on a website, find it casually interesting - not enough to bookmark it, then later come across a situation where that website would be helpful and so have their browser history at hand to help find it again.

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          2 months ago

          I’d just google the website again. Manually scrolling through tens of thousands of lines to find it takes forever, and if I search for it in the history I don’t see the advantage over DDG

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            2 months ago

            Sometimes, using a search engine fails you so having the browser history as backup might be difficult to use, but at least it’s a backup choice.