Thank you for participating in this study. The final component involves providing information from your web browser about how you use various web search engines and how you use the web overall. We will collect this information in a way where it cannot identify you, will not reveal the searches that you have made, and will not reveal any other websites or webpages that you have visited.

The information that we will ask you to provide about web search consists of when and how you ran searches. The information that we will ask you to provide about overall web use consists of how many websites and webpages you visited. This information will go back up to 30 days and will be based on your web browser's history.

Your privacy and data security is of the utmost importance to us. We will automatically redact and aggregate information that is not necessary for this study, in your web browser, before it is ever sent to us. In particular, we will never learn the search queries you run, which webpages you visit, or which websites you visit (other than your use of popular search engines).

A detailed description of the types of data that we will collect from your web browser is available here. If you would like to inspect the source code for this project, it is available here. You will have an opportunity to preview the exact data that we will collect from your web browser before you submit it to us.

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. In response to 'How far back?', select 'a month.'


4. Click 'Download as JSON.' Note where the file, named history.json, downloaded on your computer.


5. Below, click 'Choose File.' You will be prompted to select the history.json file on your computer. Code built into this webpage will automatically check that you have selected the correct file and filter out information that is unnecessary for this study. If you would like to see the exact data that we will receive from your web browser, it will be available in the text box below before you submit it to us.


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