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  It reveals that you have something to hide, which arouses more suspicion the  someone seeing something you want hid.
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  “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” -Lincoln. Same thing applies here >
  
  Empty browser history = porn
  Browser history = midget gangbang nugget porn
  See how you're wrong? >
  
  just only remove the porn and not other stuff >
  
  Or you know,  just use incognito for the porn. >
  
  That's exactly what incognito mode was conceived for. >
  
  No it was for purchasing gifts on the family computer so the recipient cant see what youve bought for them smh my head >
  
  
  smh my head
  
  Shaking my head my head? >
  
  Lol out loud >
  
  Lmao my ass off >
  
  Atm machine >
  
  Anti-humor is rare. I wish I had an award to give >
  
  It doesn’t. It just makes the person seeing the history, or lack thereof, more likely to be presumptuous. >
  
  While I wholeheartedly agree with you, I’m not sure how many people would presume, as the gentleman above you specifically mentioned, “midget gangbang nugget porn” in your history. So maybe he should clear his history for sure. lol >
  
  It reveals that the person does not know what incognito mode is. >
  
  Sometimes I'll clear my browser history on my phone when Reddit links me to something I don't want it to, or I start getting weird anime ads because the algorithm found out I was on a pokémon website. >
  
  You know you can delete individual entries in your history right? >
  
  Sure, but that presumes I get to it right away >
  
  “A murder weapon wiped cleaned of fingerprints tells you more than a murder weapon with fingerprints”
  See how that makes no sense at all??? >
  
  Better start wipe clean the dead body then >
  
  Better fill up the bathtub with acid! >
  
  “Listen mom the computer runs much faster when you clear out the history and temporary cache files I swear” >
  
  I just have OCD. My empty browser history reveals that I'm neurotic. >
  
  It's just messy if every time you start typing in the address bar it tries to suggest you random sites you visited three years ago. >
  
  It means I'm a dev and sometimes in testing I wanna clear everything and forget that browsing history doesn't need to be checked >
  
  The best way to honor a deceased person is by wiping their browser history, downloads and recent documents unseen. >
  
  I am always in incognito mode. It auto clears cookies when you close it, and nobody can see that I Google things like 19x2 while doing my advanced mathematics homework. >
  
  What that I like to clear my cookies so my data will not be collected and my browser will not slow down in addition to that no one will know thatI watch midget clown porn >
  
  Not really, it just reveals that you have something to be embarrassed about, or you haven’t used that browser yet. A full one will reveal far more specifics. >
  
  I clear browser history because my potato PC needs all the cache space it can get >
  
  That's why you either use incognito mode, or a different browser. >
  
  Or only delete the last hour of history if you accidentally pull something up on main. >
  
  That too. Also, props for being able to have a whole hour to delete. >
  
  Or it reveals you trust noone and always clear it after a browse. >
  
  Most browsers have a setting to not create one in the first place. >
  
  I would say half and half...some what...  
  a FULL browser show who someone IS...
  an EMPTY browser shows who someone COULD BE!!!
  👍😉👍 >
  
  wait does that mean that if my history is empty and then I search something, am I now some giant floating words saying “CoD transit how to do easter eggs no spoilers” ? >
  
  Browsing history -> wiped on browser exit = small NVMe and too lazy to symblink >
  
  I have nothing to hide, why should I delete my history. And yes, I watch porn from time to time. I'm not a teenager anymore and I assume my action like an adult. >
  
  No. It just tells I don't like to keep space occupied unnecessarily. >
  
  Yeah not really. Sure give you more question but doesn’t reveal much. >
  
  My Browser clears all history, cookies, cache, and temp files on closing....... >
  
  I had some friends who clear everything on their history after their done >
  
  i just use private mode regularly on my phone so there’s no tracking or anything but i have nothing to hide in life (just don’t need internet overlords knowing/ having more than they have to intrude already) >
  
  Empty browser history = brand new bought computer!
  Browser history = Computer is no longer brand new and has been used! >
  
  Why not just clear out those few specific searches rather than the entire history? >
  
  Why keeping the history at all?
  I never saved any browser history besides bookmarks. >
  
  Yeah. I reveals that what I do on My PERSONAL computer is none of your business >
  
  Delete history from past hour(s) and leave up a positive website. I like to leave up how to help more around the house, good surprise presents for wife, improve health, etc. >
  
  A few years back, I knew my fiancé was going through my phone, and I decided to plant one of those searches.  I googled how to tell if someone is going through your phone, which app is best to catch someone looking through your phone… never installed them, because I don’t have anything to hide. Well, it worked. She got insanely mad at me, and kicked me out for a week or two, never told me why, but I knew what caused the change in her mood. It could have been worse, I guess. >
  
  Well that sounds like an incredibly toxic dynamic. Here's to hoping that's ex fiancée >
  
  I’ve always said a man in his 60’s who is good with computers it was likely out of necessity to hide his porn habits >
  
  Seeing as browsing history is a multi billion dollar industry in ad targeting and an empty browsing history is just someone trying to hide something from a S.O., and it's usually just porn, so no. >
  
  Third parties cannot access browser history, clearing your browser history makes no difference to how ads target you. >
  
  If you use chrome and features like browser sync, they are most definitely using your browser history to target ads, though they may not be releasing your history to 3rd parties, they are using that plus cookies and other trackers to assign you into groups of users to send specific ads to. >
  
  Of course, as is well known
  “the bowl is more useful when it is empty” -Socrates or smth >
  
  Shut up Confucius, trying to put everything in its place
  You need to teach your eyebrows to fit better on your face >
  
  Okay, I see, you wanna make it like that?
  I'll smack that warmongering head out of your to-go box hat >
  
  Empty browser just means there’s something they don’t want you to see. >
  
  how tf can absence of data be more insightful than data ohhh never mind i get it >
  
  I work in QA - regularly removing all cache+cookies is a norm - I just say it's easier to clear all (because Google chrome defaults to that) >
  
  All you're gonna see is random searches and me looking at maid dresses on amazon(I'm a femboy) >
  
  You might think so. But if you trust that what will happen is that once someone else types one letter to the address bar it immediately shows some porn site in it. >
  
  I have my browsers set up to delete everything but logins identified in an exception list on exit.  I do that on the browser Is use for porn etc and the one I don't. >
  
  Could also just be a web developer who is trying the nuclear option