How to Delete Google History
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How to Delete Google History
Google recently changed its private policy i.e. ‘the unified private policy’ to allow it collect, store and utilize personal information. This move saw many people delete their browsing history just before the rule came into effect. One valid question that everyone should ask is why it is necessary to delete your browsing history and how to delete Google history. Browsing history stores a lot of information about the user. Some of the information could be sensitive and reveal a lot about the person browsing and since the information will be linked to his or her accounts, it becomes a risk. The common information that Google gathers includes the sites you have visited, your search queries, gender, age, religion, sex orientation, likes, dislikes location and so on. This information will be assigned to your Gmail and YouTube accounts.
Steps, How to Delete Google History
Knowing how to delete Google history is very important since many people do not want Google to store history linked to any of their online accounts. There are many ways of deleting history and the common ones include the following:
Option One – Using Online Accounts (Gmail)(how to delete google history)
- You need to visit the Google homepage, which is normally www.google.com and sign into your Gmail account.
- Once you are in your Gmail account, go next to your name and click on the dropdown arrow/menu. This menu is normally at the top of the right hand side of the email window, just besides where you have your portrait.
- From the drop down menu, you can then choose account settings by clicking on it and wait for it to open the window. You will then see the services section.
- Listed under the services section, you will see a subsection, which has the options to disable, enable or view web history. Besides it, you will see a link that will take you to web history. Click on this link.
- In the window that opens, you should then either choose remove if you want to delete some parts of the history which you will select or the option that will remove all the history on the web.
Option Two – Going Direct to Browsing History
You have learnt one way on how to delete Google history. This method is lengthy and you could opt for this shorter way, which will require you to go to browsing history directly i.e. go to www.google.com/history where you will be prompted to sign in to you account. This will take you to browsing history the moment you sign in and you will be free to select the history you want to remove or remove all the history.
What Happens When You Select Remove All the Web History?
When you go for the option to remove all your web history, you will be notified that your web history has been paused. What this means is that Google will continue collecting and storing your browsing information. However, the information will not be associated with any of your online accounts. The unfortunate thing with this is that Google will not be able to send you search results that are customized and your YouTube account and Gmail account will not be assigned any information until the time you decide to resume the process.
Alternatively, if you want to stop some sensitive information from being associated with any of your online Google account, you will have to browse through the whole history and select what you do not want associated with your account. You can choose to pause and data from the sites you no longer want to be associated with your online account.
Manual Deletion of AutoComplete History
How to delete google history is easy buy Sometimes you might want to delete the Google autocomplete history from your browsers. This is a manual process which you have to do repeatedly and not like the previous example where you choose to pause the Google history. Below are steps on how to delete Google history, using these options. For Internet explorer 6 (IE6) and 7 (IE7), follow the steps bellow:
- Launch internet explorer.
- Go to your internet explorer tool menus and open Internet Options.
- For IE7, choose the general tab and go to history of the browser. Under the browser history, choose delete. In addition, adjacent to form data, select delete forms. Finally click on yes to complete the process.
- If you happen to be using IE6, you will select the content tab and then click autocomplete that is under personal information. You will then choose clear forms before you finally click on yes.
People using Mozilla Firefox should launch it and go to the tools menu where they will choose options. Under the options window, they should select the privacy tab and choose the clear now button. Afterwards, check the search history saved form checkbox, and then clears private data.
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