Search history appearing on friends phone after using their
Search history appearing on friends phone after using their
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VEIGHT

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2,379 posts

259 months

Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Wifi.

I went to a friends house last week and used their wifi with my laptop.

Now everything that I search appears in his search history on his phone. (after leaving his house).

He is using virgin and has kids so not sure if it's a parental setting?

Anyway, i'm yet to search something too interesting but before I do how can I stop him seeing it anymore?


captain_cynic

17,596 posts

126 months

Tuesday 9th July 2019
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VEIGHT said:
Wifi.

I went to a friends house last week and used their wifi with my laptop.

Now everything that I search appears in his search history on his phone. (after leaving his house).

He is using virgin and has kids so not sure if it's a parental setting?

Anyway, i'm yet to search something too interesting but before I do how can I stop him seeing it anymore?
Did they log onto their email using your laptop or did you log onto yours on one of their devices?

My search history on my laptop appears on my phone because both are logged into my Gmail account.

VEIGHT

Original Poster:

2,379 posts

259 months

Tuesday 9th July 2019
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His son logged into his you tube account on my pc. Thats it! Not gmail or anything else!

Any ideas how to stop it?

randlemarcus

13,646 posts

262 months

Tuesday 9th July 2019
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VEIGHT said:
His son logged into his you tube account on my pc. Thats it! Not gmail or anything else!

Any ideas how to stop it?
Log him out of YouTube. p.s. Google owns YouTube.

captain_cynic

17,596 posts

126 months

Tuesday 9th July 2019
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randlemarcus said:
VEIGHT said:
His son logged into his you tube account on my pc. Thats it! Not gmail or anything else!

Any ideas how to stop it?
Log him out of YouTube. p.s. Google owns YouTube.
Yep, log out of anything that you're not certain is yours... That should stop your pron, erm... I mean perfectly tasteful searches of quality literature stop appearing on your mates phone smile

dogbucket

1,256 posts

232 months

Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Use a search engine like duckduckgo which doesn't track information.

VEIGHT

Original Poster:

2,379 posts

259 months

Tuesday 9th July 2019
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captain_cynic said:
Yep, log out of anything that you're not certain is yours... That should stop your pron, erm... I mean perfectly tasteful searches of quality literature stop appearing on your mates phone smile
Thanks! Was logged into you tube.