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Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

It is important to note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes.


On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.

Here's how you can do that:
1. Sign into your Google account.
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2. Go to https://www.google.com/history
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3. Click "remove all Web History."
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4. Click "ok."
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Note that removing your Web History also pauses it. Web History will remain off until you enable it again.

[UPDATE 2/22/2012]: Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information gathered and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.

With Web History enabled, Google will keep these records indefinitely; with it disabled, they will be partially anonymized after 18 months, and certain kinds of uses, including sending you customized search results, will be prevented. If you want to do more to reduce the records Google keeps, the advice in EFF's Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy white paper remains relevant.

If you have several Google accounts, you will need to do this for each of them.

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Nice Post Bro Thanks! this was veryy informative! :D
Wait... So have about 10 months to do this?
My point, I guess, is that you can be that person. Everyone has a dark moon, be the astronaut. You have the potential to be a greater person than you might possibly imagine.

Philsho
Thank you for dropping the valuable comment :)
Very helpfull! I will use another search engine because google is evil! 🤫
Google's new policy already took effect lol.
It took effect January 2012. Google is a piece of shit and I never used it.
Nice tut bro I really appreciate it!
(May 6, 2012 12:05 AM)SuaveSalmon Wrote:  It took effect January 2012. Google is a piece of shit and I never used it.

Actually, it took effect on March;p
EDIT: If you're concerned about your privacy check donttrack.us
(May 6, 2012 12:17 AM)YovielMarrero Wrote:  Actually, it took effect on March;p

That's what they said, but they really had it all ready in January :)

Edit: LOOL! I use duckduckgo all day bro! Google is a sell out bro.
Thank you all for the comments :) But i think you can still do this ;)
(May 6, 2012 12:18 AM)SuaveSalmon Wrote:  That's what they said, but they really had it all ready in January :)

Edit: LOOL! I use duckduckgo all day bro! Google is a sell out bro.

Yeah but it took effect on March. Have you seen dogpile.com ? I like it.
(May 6, 2012 12:22 AM)YovielMarrero Wrote:  Yeah but it took effect on March. Have you seen dogpile.com ? I like it.

O__o dogpile. Damn bro that's so old. I was thinking sout that a few weeks ago LOL!
Great post man.. This post is really informative. !! (:
Thank you for the positive comment fred.


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