Syde80

"We don't look at your data" and "We can't look at your data" have very different meanings.

Likely because a strip club is a place where its not eye catching to be sitting on a guys lap. They have probably caught people fucking in the middle of the club, which other customers will probably think is amazing... its ultimately not good for the club owners or in-house talent making money. Wearing pants makes it basically impossible to conceal doing this.

Given your comment I'm assuming you are part of findx.

The problem people have with the comment by /u/Brianschildt is he stated that there is no way that findx could see people's search queries:

No one can see your search on findx, not even us. This said, your ISP will be able to see that you are connected to findx, but not what you search for.

It is complete BS that the entity findx could not log peoples search queries if they wanted to. A user would also have no ability to know or verify that they are infact being truthful to the claim of not logging the data. You can't just tell somebody to trust you. Trust has to be earned.

Here is the thing about search engines. They have to yield search results to you. A password is something different entirely, because it doesn't not have to yield return data beyond a "You are authenticated" or "You are not authenticated".

When data is hashed, the original data is basically lost forever. You could have the data "likjsdfljsdlksdjflksjdlfkjdslflsdflsdjflksdjflsdfhsoihgfklshglkjhslgshjlgkj" and if you hash it using whatever algorithm it might yield a hash of "Jfj34jF". There is no way to obtain the original data if all you have is the hash.

When it comes to passwords, the server you are authenticating to stores the hash value. It does not know what the password is. The client (your workstation) hashes the password and ask the server if the hash matches, if it does, you get authenticated.

So with a search engine... its completely different, the server has to respond with search results to whatever your query is. If your web browser hashed your search query the server would not actually know what you are searching for. Because "Giant Elephant Cock" gets hashed to "vj3jgfF". The only way a search engine could yield results given the hash would be to already know ahead of time that "vj3jgF" is a code-word for "Giant Elephant Cock" and thus the search engine now knows what you searched for.

I have to call complete BS on /u/Brianschildt that "they" (findx) can't see what you are searching for. Even their own privacy page (You will find this page if you click the Privacore link in the bottom left of the findx page) states that they could collect and store your data:

But even then, our guarantee of privacy is one based on trust, technically the nature of browsing the web would still allow us to collect data about you – but we don’t.

No idea why the post above would claim they can't. Its complete BS and anybody that knows anything about how the web works will know this. This might just be an innocent blunder, but unfortunately given the whole point of this site and the high degree of trust it would require... all this statement does is discredit them.

Its not really possible because the server would still have to know what results to return given the hash. Perhaps I'm not thinking of something though.

The only way I can see you are going to have anonymous search results is either using something like Tor or having the search index on a machine that only you control.