Clarification on Deleted History Reappearing – Possible Browser Error?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @jubiscreuda12345678 last edited by

@jubiscreuda12345678 Opera One, Opera GX or Opera Air?

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jubiscreuda12345678 @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse he visited an adult website in march this year, he promised he wouldn’t do it again, but saturday i saw again on his google historic and he’s saying that it was a bug of the navigator

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jubiscreuda12345678 @leocg last edited by

@leocg gx

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @jubiscreuda12345678 last edited by

@jubiscreuda12345678 What Google historic?

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jubiscreuda12345678 @leocg last edited by

@leocg visited history

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @jubiscreuda12345678 last edited by

@jubiscreuda12345678 So Google is saying that there was a search for that page?

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jubiscreuda12345678 @leocg last edited by

@leocg Yes, i wish i could send the screenshot, but there is the link to the website and the link to the vídeo, but he said that he did it before and Google just 'searched' again on its own

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @jubiscreuda12345678 last edited by

@jubiscreuda12345678 Then most probably someone manually searched for the page.

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jubiscreuda12345678 @leocg last edited by

@leocg but he claims he didn't do that, and he said that this happens all the time but can't prove it, the navigator keeps searching things on its own but why the adult website?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @jubiscreuda12345678 last edited by

@jubiscreuda12345678 How Google get that information? What app Google says was used to access that page?

Opera doesn't send any information about your visited pages to Google, so the only way of Google know about it would be if the person searched for the page and accessed through a Google link.

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jubiscreuda12345678 @leocg last edited by

@leocg yes, that’s what happened, he access google through opera

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @jubiscreuda12345678 last edited by

@jubiscreuda12345678 So he or someone searched for site in Google and accessed using a link in Google search results page.

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jubiscreuda12345678 @leocg last edited by

@leocg you are sure that there is no way the history popped that up on its own, even if he has searched 2 months ago, this can't be a bug?

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @jubiscreuda12345678 last edited by

@jubiscreuda12345678 The only other situation I could imagine is that the search and/or the page wasn't totally removed and is still showing up as a suggestion and there may have been opened by mistake.

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sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @jubiscreuda12345678 last edited by

@jubiscreuda12345678 Of course if Opera is set as the default, it could be that he installed some hacked app which is opening those links. Ask him what he recently installed, just before this started.

There are hundreds of sites offering "free" versions of commercial games or other apps, but you never know what else they did while removing that apps security. I'm sure you don't condone that either, but it is possible he didn't try to visit that site.

I mean, more likely something one of his friends sent him, but there are other possibilities.