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[contrarianarchon]

I google "trinitite" *once* and now my browser holds that as higher priority than tumblr. And it's going to keep doing that, since my habit of getting to tumble with t+enter means that it thinks I'm ritually googling a rock before every visit to the blue hellsite.

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[brin_bellway]

Which reminds me, I've been meaning to go into my Chrome history and delete everything from wealthsimple.com, so that my browser will stop taunting me with investments that--upon inspection--I'm not allowed to have when actually I just wanted a weather report. *goes and does that, "wea" stops autocompleting to wealthsimple.com*

I'm not sure how that interacts with searches. If you go into your browser history (on Chrome the shortcut is ctrl-h) and filter for "trinitite", does anything come up? If so, and you delete the things that come up, does your browser autocomplete stop doing that?

[contrarianarchon]

Yes! Thank you!

[nathanielbuildsatesseract]

I've noticed this "feature", too—I think it's new. Eventually (and by eventually, I mean maybe two weeks) it stopped putting the search term in question above the website I was actually looking for again.

[contrarianarchon]

See, they key failure-point is that I kept re-searching it, since I had a strong reflex to just pick the first thing which came up. So it was never going to disappear unless I did something.

[nathanielbuildsatesseract]

Oh no, it took some time to notice and avoid re-inforcing the result.

I think the shift+delete works for search terms as well as websites, so that's also an option.

[contrarianarchon]

It's not a problem now, the search-history thing fixed it :)