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by Hondor 3432 days ago
> ... has access to your browsing history, your search history, your entire internet history ...

That's a bit over the top. They'll only have access to data that you already knew lots of people have access to anyway. Not HTTPS sites where they'll only have the domain name. So they won't have your Google search history but will for Bing which bizarrely defaults to HTTP.

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Good guess but you're wrong. They also get meta data like size of page loads Wich is more than enough to find out what Wikipedia entry you are looking at [there's a paper].
Citation?