How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
source: http://https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-n...
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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:
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GrannyLib
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Of course, Granny thanks you...of course!
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GrannyLib
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Sexirobot
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I clear my browsing history after every "session" ...so I'm covered.
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Sexirobot
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GrannyLib
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Sexirobot:
Is that actually all I need to do? - no downloads?
Grannies appreciate all the help crossing internet streets that they can get!
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GrannyLib
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Swisher
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You might also want to check on the permissions you've given to other sites in accessing your mail. Here's a quick link to some of those: http://mypermissions.org/
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Swisher
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Tayllerand
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It is a lie, they will never get rid of your history, google work with the CIA. Also facebook. You are dreaming !
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Tayllerand
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maasanova
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Tayllerand:
I hate to say it, but I wish you were wrong, but I'm afraid you may be right.
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maasanova
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Tayllerand
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maasanova:
I know why I'm telling!
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Tayllerand
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remanns
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"featured" at "culture".
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remanns
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artemis6
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Done , thanks !
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artemis6
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Itsbatman_Durr
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google takes your online habit trail and uses it to serve relevant links and products tailored to your interests.
facebook takes your real life personal info and sells it to the highest bidder. - 3 months ago
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Itsbatman_Durr
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Moonlyte
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Four steps to a tracker-free life on teh interwebs:
In Firefox, pull down the Tools menu, click Privacy tab, and check the box "Always use private browsing mode".
Go to CNET and download CCleaner (top rated & free). This will get rid of all your temp files, trackers, cookies, etc. Run it every time you're done surfing for the day, or whenever your system seems sluggish. It might be slow the first time you run it if you've never cleaned out all the temp file caches in your browser history AND Windows. Leave the box for "wipe unused space" unchecked for everyday use:
http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/Also download Ghostery (top rated & free), which shows you **unobtrusively** how many trackers and cookies each website is trying to attach to you, without pestering you to make a decision for each page like some of the other tracker detection programs:
http://download.cnet.com/Ghostery/3000-11745_4-10974194.htmlIxquick's Start Page search engine uses the power of Google but blocks their view of YOU, and gives you real search results, ignoring their paid sponsors. I have it set as my startpage. It didn't bug me to install anything or hijack my toolbar:
https://startpage.com/eng/ - 3 months ago
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Moonlyte
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Itsbatman_Durr
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Moonlyte:
much like google itself, "Enabling GhostRank will allow you to anonymously participate in an information-gathering panel designed to improve Ghostery performance and create a census of advertisements, tracking beacons, and other page scripts across the web. The data collected is used only in aggregate, contains no personally identifiable information, and will never be used to target advertising."
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Itsbatman_Durr
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LivingPong
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Moonlyte:
TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomised search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles. To better simulate user behaviour TrackMeNot uses a dynamic query mechanism to 'evolve' each client (uniquely) over time, parsing the results of its searches for 'logical' future query terms with which to replace those already used.
http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ - 3 months ago
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LivingPong
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Moonlyte:
+^d !!! thanx
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remanns
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Itsbatman_Durr:
That's true. But Ghostery lets you opt out. Google is a huge company, run by human beings who have access to sensitive data that the wrong person could exploit for the right price. I'd rather have a barrier between me and that liability.
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Skeptikat
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LivingPong
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Itsbatman_Durr:
Ghostery is rad! It's good to GhostRank as new crud is invented and released nearly everyday that tracks users. There are currently 820 different items that can collect data on users and their information being blocked.
If you run PeerBlock or a similar tool for a couple hours you will be stunned at the variety and number of different organisations scanning IP addresses at any one time. The amount of private and government surveillance of internet users is truly epic and is increasing daily.
The only true way now to protect yourself from privacy invasion is via VPN or an encryption service. For as little as $10 a month you can totally secure your privacy, ensuring you don't disclose your privacy and habits yourself. With the amount of Phishing and Identity Theft now at record levels, it's worth considering if you can afford not to protect yourself from an eventual successful attack and the resulting cost of identity theft or seizure of personal data you may have stored on your terminal.
It's good to run at least all of the above applications mentioned in previous posts by Moonlyte and Itsbatman_Durr. Google Chrome is best avoided too as it tracks you.
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LivingPong
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Skeptikat
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LivingPong:
Sounds interesting. I like the Ghostery format, though, as you get an instant reveal on each site you visit, telling you how much that site respects your privacy, and then it disappears:
Actual Ghostery results:
http://inlinethumb49.webshots.com/50480/2638002030107406032S600x600Q85.jpg - 3 months ago
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Skeptikat
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Skeptikat
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LivingPong:
I have a VPN for $11.95 a month. Worth every penny. ; )
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Skeptikat
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Wyley_Wombat
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Thanks for the tip. Although I think Google has already gathered a massive amount of information on most of us, anything that I can do to make the task more difficult for them is a good thing. It is like closing the barn doors to keep the last of the cows from escaping even though most have already gone.
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Wyley_Wombat
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oldbanjo
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I did what you said to do, thanks.
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oldbanjo
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ThirdSection
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Done, done, and done.
Thanks, Maasanova, you rock!!!!
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ThirdSection
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MauriceLacunza
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Here is my take on it. I have so much stuff on the internet that if I tried to remove it now, I am screwed. I might as well accept the cross over features for "my convenience" and accept the fact that I can't remove my internet history this far into the game. Sucks actually.
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MauriceLacunza
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Niteman
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Start using Ixquick.
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Niteman
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dooder
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I personally will stop using google on Feb 29th. Can anyone recommend a search engine that is not in my business
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dooder
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ThirdSection
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dooder:
Absolutely! Give http://duckduckgo.com/ a try.
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ThirdSection
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arteazul
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dooder:
maybe bing is better
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arteazul
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treewolf39
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dooder:
I already switch to Mozilla Firefox. I read the new policy and dumped goggle chrome.
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treewolf39
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MrMetalloidMan
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Are you sure this will work when the policy changes?
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MrMetalloidMan
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maasanova
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MrMetalloidMan:
Not too sure. This was the best I find for now, but I'l try to remember to keep us posted.
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maasanova
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chew_chew
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Maasanova, you rock! Thank you for posting this timely information. I wish I could shake your hand for this. Voted up.
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chew_chew
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maasanova
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chew_chew:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lluhlhCvQe1qjd7pfo1_400.jpg
Settle for an internet hi-five?
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maasanova
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chew_chew
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maasanova:
Back at cha, Maasanova. :-)
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chew_chew
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lazloman
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Done! Thanks!
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lazloman
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kennymotown
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Good post maasanova! Excellent.
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kennymotown
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Truthitswhatsfordinner
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Thanks for the post^.
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Truthitswhatsfordinner
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maasanova
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Truthitswhatsfordinner:
No problem guys.
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maasanova
