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Why You Might Want to Delete Your Google Browser History Before Next Week

Feb. 24, 2012 12:40am Liz Klimas

As of March 1, Google’s new, “shorter and easier to read” privacy policy will go into effect. At that time, the search giant that also includes products such as YouTube, Gmail and Calendar will begin “[treating] you as a single user across all [of its] products.” An example provided by the company is letting you know you’re late for a meeting based on your location and calendar schedule.

So, what is there to do if you want Google to hold a little less personal information about you? The Daily Mail suggests a good starting step is to delete your browser history. It even offers the steps on how to do so:

1. Go to the Google homepage and sign into your account. Use the dropdown menu under your name in the upper right-hand corner to access your settings. Click on “account settings”, like below.

How to Delete Google Web History Before Privacy Policy Changes

(Image: Daily Mail)

2. Next, find the section called “Services” and you’ll see a link to “View, enable, or disable web history”, shown in the red box below. Click on it.

(Image: Daily Mail)

3. Finally, you can remove all of your search details by clicking on “Remove Web History”, shown in the red box below. Once you have done this your history will remain disabled until you turn it back on.

(Image: Daily Mail)

The Daily Mail notes that while clearing your browsing history won’t prevent Google from storing this info for its own purposes, it will at least become anonymous.

Google announced in January that it would be reducing its more than 60 privacy policies into one cohesive message. With this new policy, if you are logged into Google, the company may be able to collect your information from one service to another, recognizing preferences and making connections across its platforms. If you think not logging into Google will prevent tracking, the Daily Mail points out that the company will just track you by IP address. While Google says that this updated policy doesn’t deviate from its core principals.

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SanDiegoCountyCitizen
Posted on June 26, 2012 at 11:29pm
Integrated account services between Google services are great… tough to live without. I’d pay for using them if I could get privacy, but since I can’t, I guess I’ll just have to live with my info being used to target their advertising for customers. Look on the bright side… at least they are only going to be using our info for commercial purposes… The Federal government has unlimited access to all our browsing history and full and instant access (without warrant) to all our emails and attachments, and they have far more nefarious intentions.

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VonMisesTX
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 3:05am
The fact that this is a policy and not something anyone is forced to use or do is important. You don’t have to use GMAIL for email, they let you use that for free because they want to sell you ads. You don’t have to use Chrome to browse, they give that away free. You don’t have to sign in on Chrome, but they include that to make browsing and using your own settings easier. You don’t have to search with Google, its a free service. Yes they want your information so they can sell your eyeballs to a advertiser who is looking for a targeted audience. Its a way more efficient way of advertising then sending penis enhancement spam to women in their inbox. Instead display ads tailored to them. You can opt out of any of it by choice. And yes they also give away a free operating system for mobile devices, which takes hundreds of thousands of man hours to maintain.

So quit complaining about their policy and use something different if you don’t like it. If enough people did that to effect their bottom line Google would change its course. By the way I had to agree to similar terms just to leave this comment.

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SenorDee
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:23am
I have an old version of Firefox that Google tells me is no longer supported and I can’t find a “services” feature. Does my obsolescence mean I’m immune?

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The Servant-Messenger-Prophet
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
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Heavyduty70
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 3:45pm
All this bickering about who is and who is not causing the downfall of this nation is getting rather boring. We all know that there is a faction out there intent on causing the distruction of this the last nation standing for freedom. Joe McCarthy was right. He was right then and it still stands. Whether these factions are Marxist, Jewish, Freemasons, or aliens from outer space, there is only one force behind this movement to distroy our fredoms. That force is the truly Evil One who has hated mankind from the begining and wants to see it totally distroyed. By using the different organizations/coalitions/religions to divide humans against themselves, the Evil One is able to stay behind the scenes and do his worse to accomplish this goal. We are but pawns being moved across the chess board of life. There are bigger and more important things to worry about that pointing the finger at who is responsible. We all must be responsible and judged for our actions and we will be found wanting.
FYI: The bible does say that if you curse Israel you shall be cursed but does anyone realilize that the Jews are just 1/12th of that curse. There were twelve tribes in ancient Isreal. All Jews are Israelites but not all Isrealites are Jews. When you curse Isreal you then curse yourself. You peolpe need to read a history book now and then. Yes, there is evil in the government. Just as there is evil in big business. There is evil in all of us but we have the option and ablity to over come this evi

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- The Servant-Messenger-Prophet
  Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:47pm
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allotrios
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:58am
Wow, you guys are real jerks, jumping on Rose-Ellen like that and resorting to name calling. I thought we were better than that. All she’s saying is the obvious: if you don’t want someone to see it, don’t slap it on the Internet. I like my privacy, and take massive precautions to ensure it, but at the same time, there’s always the chance someone will get through it. So if there’s anything I wouldn’t want getting out, I don’t put it on the Internet. Obvs.

Otherwise,

Thank you, Blaze, for this useful information. :)

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threebs
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:47am
I have NEVER used google. I thought it was a silly name to begin with. I hate following the crowd. I tend to give my business to the competition of any company that looks to be getting to big for it’s britches so to speak. Use ASK or (shudder) Bing instead. Can’t say they are any different, but I like the “little” guys better as I have had better costumer service with smaller companies.

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jesso865
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:53pm
I have attempted to follow the sugestions to delete my history but when I sign in and go to account settings the page comes up with all info except my sign in info written in the cyrillic alphabet. I have never used the google translation before and can find no waay to return this page to english. Has anybody else had this problem — or can you suggest a solution??

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LOJ
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:38pm
Thanks for info everyone. Spying is destroying your rights!

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