This next step in the study involves providing information from your web browser about how you use web search engines and how you use the web overall. This information will be based on your web browser's history, and it will include when and how you ran searches as well as counts of how many websites and webpages you visited over the past 30 days.

Your privacy and data security are of the utmost importance to us. We have implemented technical safeguards to prevent us from collecting your search queries, the other websites or webpages that you have visited, or browser information that identifies you. You will have an opportunity to preview your information before you provide it. You may also review a detailed description of the types of data that we will collect here.

Please continue for step-by-step directions on how to provide this information from your web browser.

Please follow the steps below to provide web search and browsing information for this study.

1. Install the Export Chrome History web browser extension. We ask you to install this extension so that you can create a file with your web browser history data. Please note that this extension is compatible with both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.


2. Open the extension webpage to export information from your web browser. You can access this webpage by opening a new browser window and copying and pasting the following special URL into the address bar.
   
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3. On the extension webpage, in response to How far back? select a month.


4. On the extension webpage, click Download as JSON. Note where the file, named history.json, downloaded on your computer.


5. Click the Choose File button below, then select the history.json file that downloaded on your computer.
   
   This webpage will automatically check for the correct file and filter out unnecessary information. If you would like to see the exact data that we will receive from your web browser, it will appear in the text box below before you submit it to us.


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This displays the minimized web search and browsing information that will be collected when you submit this form.