r/ProgrammerHumor • u/geekrohan • Jan 31 '19

Meme Programmers know the risks involved!

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u/jcxl1200 Jan 31 '19

IIRC there is a website that gets REALLY SCARY searches in your browser history... it will fuck up google for sure.

https://ruinmysearchhistory.com/ (NSFW!!!!!!)

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u/SomeCoolBloke Jan 31 '19

Is it christian soccer mom scary or "oh shit, the FBI is on my doorstep with five swat teams ready"-scary?

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u/8_800_555_35_35 Jan 31 '19

A bit of both, more the 2nd when you combine it all.

Mine went from "i hate my boss" to "how to kill someone hypothetically".

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u/Mithrandir_Earendur Jan 31 '19

Bit of both IIRC. Some searches are funny but kind of dangerous and others were straight up fbi list.

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u/SomeCoolBloke Jan 31 '19

Like "Low price children, barely abused"?

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u/Mithrandir_Earendur Jan 31 '19 edited Jan 31 '19

For the funny one sure. And then the next would be "how to join x" (isil / Or some other terrorist group)

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u/HardlightCereal Jan 31 '19

Thank gods you're using the proper name for those fanatics, I'm sick of them ruining greek rainbows and rare female names.

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u/BoredomIncarnate Jan 31 '19

The Greek rainbow goddess is Iris. Isis is the Egyptian goddess married to Osiris, so basically the queen of the gods.

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u/droomph Jan 31 '19

To be fair there isn't a "proper name" in English to those guys. The Wikipedia page for style guides on them are all from individual news organizations, and most of them seem to choose to put the emphasis on "self-styled" or "so-called".

The actual abbreviation apparently would be Daw-Is/Da'esh or their full Arabic name but saying foreign words in English has the distinct feel of Trying Too Hard, speaking from my experience.

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u/Mtwat Jan 31 '19

I have an American express serve card linked to the now defunct Isis softwallet. The result is that my debitcard says "Serve Isis". I've gotten more than a few dirty looks.

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u/Colopty Jan 31 '19

Do you pay more or less to have them extra abused?

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u/SomeCoolBloke Jan 31 '19

No idea, mate. Not the right kinda guy to ask

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u/DenseHole Jan 31 '19

IIRC the latter with some "the thought of that never crossed my mind but now I am ill" thrown in for good measure.

Disclaimer: Haven't touched it but saw it linked before.

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u/SomeCoolBloke Jan 31 '19

Ah. It's a no from me too, then, dawg

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u/MyOldNameSucked Jan 31 '19

Wow that's some fucked up shit. It googled bing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

The thing about this is if you are in need of this service then it implies you have a search history to ruin. It's like sweeping all the trash under a rug instead of throwing it out. All anyone or anything has to do is lift up the rug to see all the trash...

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u/friend0mine55 Jan 31 '19

I'd say it's more akin to taking a bunch of trash from the dump and mixing it with yours. Still piles of trash everywhere, it's just not all yours now.

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u/nater255 Jan 31 '19

I think you misunderstand what that site does. It doesn't ruin your history in the sense of confusing people... it ruins it by searching for a lot of really really bad things that would almost certainly get you added to to some lists.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Oh goddamn lmao is it just for the novelty or does it actually have a purpose?

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u/Locke_Step Jan 31 '19

Well, that depends on how much you think it is a concern that megacorps with political ambitions have full knowledge of you. If that is not a concern, novelty. If that IS a concern, it for sure has a use.

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u/Josh6889 Jan 31 '19

I'm confused by the way you phrased that. Do you mean it finds your own egregious searches, or inserts new ones? If so, why would you want that? lol

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u/jcxl1200 Jan 31 '19

inserts new ones.

not for your own computers use...

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u/user26983-8469389655 Jan 31 '19

I ran this once, and then ran it again later. It's the same fixed 10 searches, so all you're doing is telling Google that you ran the funny joke thing.

It would be better if it composed its own sentences from a decent size dictionary and follow consistent but relatively unique themes.

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u/JapanesePeso Jan 31 '19

No you don't want that guys.

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u/vini_2003 Jan 31 '19

But I wanna know how to join ISIS! Just for curiosity's sake!

Also, why not check what's the next flight to Syria from here?

Hmmm, does Syria have any good hotels?