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Can anyone explain to me exactly how Google Talk handles your chat history? I use Google Chat a lot at work, and sometimes I use it for topics that are somewhat sensitive for clients. At the moment, I sign out of gmail any time I go away from my desk, as a privacy-prevention measure, but it's a pain to have to do that every time I go to the toilet or head out to grab a coffee. Most chat programs have a button to clear your history, but while the mobile version of Talk has one of these, the desktop version - the one you access from within a browser while logged into your gmail account - doesn't seem to. If you view the chat log in the 'chats' section, you get a "delete hangout history" button, which removes the record of the chat from the "chat" section of your gmail account. But if I then double-click on the contact's name to bring up a new chat window a few hours later, the history is still there and I can scroll right back through it. Or at least sometimes it is; it seems that if I wait for some indetermined length of time it eventually goes away. Clearing the history on my phone only clears it on the phone - the history stays put on my desktop browser. Can anyone explain exactly how Gmail handles all this? Every official answer I can find on Google's product forums is evasive and uninformative, which I suppose makes sense from a company obsessed with hanging on to every single detail you provide them, but it's frustrating not being able to get a clear answer on some pretty basic functionality. As a related question, is there a good chat client that can play nicely with Google Talk but that actually has a functioning 'clear history' button? edit: Google's FAQ says the following: quote:Why do my previous chats appear in the chat window? edit2: It's also not true that the data is stored locally. If I open a gmail window on another PC, the chat history is there too. Zephro fucked around with this message at 21:29 on May 6, 2014 |
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