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No, the browsing history isn't likely to (data URLs I guess make it technically possible, but...); your browser cache might.


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Would browser history help here?

Even the history, eh? That would definitely slow me down next time I want to go back to that same page. I guess I rely on the browser suggesting the previously visited website to me.

I’m not sure, there might a way to obtain the incognito cache and determine browser history from that, if that’s what you’re after.

Yes, but it still produces a bunch of entries in the actual browser history

Browser history?

remember, browser history is a thing

Like a giant browser history?

I remember I used to have unlimited browser history with a never expiring, searchable cache, but for some reason its not possible anymore.

How could Google see the content of a browsing history?

They can see searching history, but generally not browsing history (unless someone uses something like synchronizing browser history through Google account).


Not if you use the HTML history API: http://html5demos.com/history

Admittedly, you need a modern browser for that. But you can always present full-page-load HTML to users with older browsers and then provide AJAXy history-ified goodness to everyone else.


Why does it need to read my browsing history?

Now if only it would index the actual web pages of the browser history.

Are you sure about that? How is it possible to track the browsing history by a website?

Yes, thanks to a modern web browser api called `history.pushState` web sites can modify your history [0]. Useful for single page apps where you want the back button to revert the page to previous states as if they were previous 'pages', abused by web publications the world over to insert a phantom subscription nag page to their website.

But if pushState didn't exist they could probably just hit that nag-page first and then load the desired page, hopefully fast enough for you not to notice.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API


So... your browser doesn't track history for you?

Although that might have been the case some time ago, nowadays browser history is definitely not easily searchable unless you only need results from the last 90 days. Chrome purges them after that, and Firefox has a similar limit.

When you say browsing history you mean DNS lookups?

I wouldn't think they have access to your actual URLs as this is HTTPS, only the domain name. Or am I missing something.


yes. i regularly delete my browsing history.

well, technically if they got a being-requested URL then that will be web browsing history.
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