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How to Stop Google From Tracking Your Searches

by kindsvater
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Here is a useful article about telling Google not to keep track of your web searches:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/0...y-takes-effect

Whether or not Google will disable this option in the future remains to be seen. It is also not clear if this prevents Google tracking, or just prevents you from seeing what Google is tracking about you.

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#google #searches #stop #tracking
  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    If the past history is any indication, anything that is now optional within Google may not be optional in the future.
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  • Profile picture of the author kokopelli
    Good thing I've never turned on Google "history" ... :O

    In addition, you might want to turn off your viewing history on YouTube: How to Prevent YouTube from Keeping a Record of The Videos You Watch
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnnyMazuma
    If you want Google to stop tracking you, then stop using Chrome, Firefox, and Google Toolbar. Oh, don't forget to NOT sign-up for Google's "track my behavior" program.

    Using any of the above mentioned items will result in Google able to track your behaviors whether you want them to or not.

    You may have also noted recent news of Google circumventing Safari's privacy controls and now Microsoft saying the same about Internet Explorer.

    Additionally, if you want to avoid Google knowing anything about you, stop using Google's services. Like in Orson Well's 1984 big brother wants to know everything. The more information you allow Google to know, they more control they gain over your life.
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  • Profile picture of the author kokopelli
    Originally Posted by JohnnyMazuma

    Additionally, if you want to avoid Google knowing anything about you, stop using Google's services.
    That's easier said, than done ... just Google it
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      So, I have to have a Google account in order to tell Google not to track my searches? Hmm. Something seems odd with that picture.
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnnyMazuma
        Hi Dan,

        I think I said, don't use Google and NOT sign-up for Google's "track my behavior."
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  • Profile picture of the author kokopelli
    Originally Posted by redicelander

    Yes because youtube using your viewing history in order to present you with other videos that might be of interest to you would just be...horrible.
    If you share a computer, maybe with the rest of your family, and do not want your kids/others to see what you've been viewing ... it could be "horrible". It's a personal choice to be tracked or not, in the end...
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