From 1st March Google will start merging your web history with other Google products, like Google plus and YouTube. This is since the search giant is now implementing its unified privacy policy from that date. This policy will then start affecting the data that Google already collected from your profile before March 1st and then in future as well. The data that we are talking about involves the searches you made on Google and the sites that you visited.
What does this mean? It means Google will now be able to reveal particular information about you that could be considered very sensitive in nature. This may include data about your location, religion, age and interests and so forth; and then combine this web history data with the data that it may have collected about you form its other products like YouTube. That is why this may interest you more now. If you don't want to have this data combination, then you could follow below steps to remove your previous web history from Google and be safe from this data collaboration.
Be aware that removing this data also means that your web history collection is now paused and Google will not enable it unless you yourself do it manually. However, Google will still be able to use the same data for its internal assess purposes like it does now. And in no way does this mean that the data may not be used by other agencies for seeking law enforcement.
Here are the steps for you accompanied by the images for convenience:
Sign into your Google account
Go to https://www.google.com/history
Click 'Remove all Web History'
See above Image
Confirm
What does this mean? It means Google will now be able to reveal particular information about you that could be considered very sensitive in nature. This may include data about your location, religion, age and interests and so forth; and then combine this web history data with the data that it may have collected about you form its other products like YouTube. That is why this may interest you more now. If you don't want to have this data combination, then you could follow below steps to remove your previous web history from Google and be safe from this data collaboration.
Be aware that removing this data also means that your web history collection is now paused and Google will not enable it unless you yourself do it manually. However, Google will still be able to use the same data for its internal assess purposes like it does now. And in no way does this mean that the data may not be used by other agencies for seeking law enforcement.
Here are the steps for you accompanied by the images for convenience:
Sign into your Google account
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| Google Web History Sign In |
Go to https://www.google.com/history
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| Web History and Remove Page |
Click 'Remove all Web History'
See above Image
Confirm
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| Confirm Web History Removal |
I tried clearing my history but it wasn't working like it should. Seem some issue on Google' side, but thanks for the steps!
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