Site Engagement and Privacy

Adam Chace

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Mar 3, 2017, 9:23:53 AM3/3/17

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In pursuing a way to clear the Site Engagement score to test HBD (HtmlByDefault) it became clear to me that chrome://site-engagement survives any attempts to purge history and is available even in Incognito mode.

Isn't this a security concern? Has this been discussed?

Having a way to clear SE would be great for devs testing HBD but it seems it also is an appropriate measure for privacy.

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Armen M.

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Mar 3, 2017, 10:39:06 AM3/3/17

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Wow, thanks for shining a light on this - very troubling indeed.

Sivan Lahav

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Mar 5, 2017, 3:17:23 PM3/5/17

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Adam,

I tried it myself and cleared my browsing history and it seemed to have also cleared the site-engagement metrics:

Did you try clearing your browsing history from the "beginning of time"

Sivan

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