#Mozilla could really clarify what exactly will be deleted in #Firefox when one wants to "Clear Recent History". Before you ask, I had legit access and performance reasons to do that, it's not what you're thinking 😜

Anyway, it turns out that when you select some recent time period out of the options it gives, it won't clear just, say, today's NEW content, but anything that might have been MODIFIED today. And that includes all your sessions on websites you were accessing in that time period.

So, TL;DR I hit that OK button but as soon as I did it, I started blurting all the expletives I could think of and then some. Because of course I was signed out of EVERYTHING!!! Today's history my bottom, I ended up looking for master passwords I didn't use in YEARS!!! :blobfacepalm:

#UI #UX #WebBrowser #BrowserHistory #HowNotToUI #Kookys

To all #Firefox users: there is the very cool feature to delete the browser history when closing the app. But evry time I have too close firefox twice. After the first time, browser history is still there. When I open and close FF again, then it's deleted. And yeah, I use the quit option in the menu. #mozilla #browserhistory #featurerequest #bugreport

A personal thank you to all the users who do malicious things on their work computer, and think I won’t find it.

#BrowserHistory
#infosec

Want to Archive Twitter? Good Luck With That - The platform's meltdown has shed light on the steep challenge of preserving social media ... - https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-archive-elon-musk/ #business/socialmedia #browserhistory #business

IMF researchers: digital footprint yields better credit assessment

HN discussion of IMF's Credit Stasi proposal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119312

#IMF #ArnoudBoot #PeterHoffmann #LucLaeven #LevRatnovski #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #BrowserHistory #SearchHistory #Profiling #Credit #Risk #Holocaust #Stasi

Remember the names Arnoud Boot, Peter Hoffmann, Luc Laeven, Lev Ratnovski, as signatories to the death of all privacy and the opening of universal surveillance in all commercial and financial dealings.

Under the remarkably anodyne title "What is Really New in Fintech" and published by the International Monetary Fund blog, these four men proposed that credit ratings be improved by "tapping various nonfinancial data: the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases".

https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-is-really-new-in-fintech/

Everything you do online, transferred to, assessed, rated, and stored permanently, one would suspect, by that most highly egalitarian and trusted of all institutions, the global financial system.

Arnoud Boot is professor of Corporate Fiance and Financial Markets at the #UniversityOfAmsterdam, in the country whose census records were used during WWII to prosecute the Holocaust on the Netherland's Jewish population. Of 107,000 deported Jews, only 5,200 survived.

Peter Hoffman is an economist working at the Financial Research Division of the #EuropeanCentralBank (#ECB), researching microstructure of financial markets, but apparently neither ethics nor privacy and surveillance.

Luc Laeven is Director-General of the Directorate General Research of the #ECB, and previously worked with the #IMF, #WorldBank, and #ABNAmroBank.

Lev Ratnovski is Sr. Econoist at the #IMF's research department.

These men would sell your entire informational history to gain a few fractions of a percent of interest income.

The banality of evil indeed.

#ArnoudBoot #PeterHoffmann #LucLaeven #LevRatnovski #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #BrowserHistory #SearchHistory #Profiling #Credit #Risk #Holocaust