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This is just insane.
This is just insane.
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So. Deeply. Troubling.
I would have preferred to lead a life where I could pretend that people didn't do this sort of thing.
In their twilight years, AOL fires the one parting shot that can shred what is left of my tainted soul.
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Who here is surprised that searches for strange things are being done in the same households as searches for mundane crap?
The first one done on Consumerist was a little chuckle but this horse fell over shortly after the first whack.
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Such a shame: \"proms hairs styles\"
NASCAR fans are more illiterate than I thought.
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Great, so somewhere out there is a log of me searching for pets eating their owners?
I think was is alarming about this in particular search log is that there seem to be at least two users here: a young girl and someone else with an unwholesome interest in familial relations..
I have a creeping suspicion that this User 231392 is from the South.
\"A moonshine mistress\"? Oh honestly, Ben. Did you make that up? You slay me. I swoon.
Many of these ID numbers probably represent more than one person - a lot of the records show the same account searching for Disney Channel shows during the day and hardcore pornography at night. Either it's two people sharing the same account, or... ewwwww...
Also, as scintillating as these \"profiles\" are, you're just compounding the damage done by AOL by releasing them.
.....I knew there was another reason I quickly stopped using AOL's search engine (or their browser)shortly after I signed up. Besides the fact that it tended to find mostly their advertisers' pages...
.....Of course, any ISP that keeps logs (most?) can look up any web activity you've had. It's just wacky to release these things to the public, though.
.....Looks like the leadership of the company has gone from \"greedy\" (which is at least understandable) to \"just plain crazy.\" A fool and his money are soon parted...