Do you know that Google scouting your every word you searched on google even stalked your privacy? It includes browser history, voice search history, google maps history, or any other Google service. Frightened? You should, but not anymore. I am here to give you a complete guide on how to delete Google search history. Let’s understand first why does google store your history. Also, take a look at how to block a website on Chrome.
Google is the world’s largest software company, not just of the search engine, but it also runs Gmail, Browsers, applications, maps, and other hundreds of free services. It is obvious that Google has a large database of its users, but Google always updates it.
One more interesting fact is that google neither sells your data or records to any other 3rd party company or advertiser (as Google claims). So, why Google store it? And why we have to worry about it?
Good question, though! Here is the answer according to Google:
Storing history and other activities help google to deliver a more customize and user-friendly search experience. It also helps companies to let them personalized their ads so that they can show behavioral ads on web pages.
Let understand in another way that you may notice some advertisement on that pages whenever you open a website. More specifically, those ads appear based on your recent search history, and those are called behavioral ads. Now you understand why Google stores your data.
Then why should we worry? Instead of that, we are helping Google to customize and deliver better user-friendly search results and add value to our needs. It is true but not a complete story.
When you visit any website for your queries, you notice that the website asks permission to allow Cookies, and you tap in “allow.” Cookies are the small files or data that store your basic information.
You may not remember the incident of 2015/16; hackers stole yahoos’ cookies data of 32 million users and made them accessible to everyone without any password. In the worst case, they sell users’ data to 3rd party companies with money conversion.
The same thing could happen with your browser histories and other data, and Google is not noble in this case. Periodically we watch in the news that Google or Facebook is selling users’ data to 3rd party companies.
These types of irregularities can damage your privacy as well as your security. Who knows you will be blackmailed to leak your sensitive data in public or sell it to someone? Instead of waiting until that day, why should you not delete your history and prevent to store in the future.
It’s good that you take a bold decision to delete your Google search history. You can control your data, that what to do store and what should be deleted. The methods are almost the same in Mobile, laptop, android, iOS, and iPhone.
[Note– Clearing Google browser history is not the same as delete Google history. The browser history is just a way to clear your history that is stored locally. So, we are going to delete Google history.]
This is one of the best and easiest ways to delete Google search history, and Google itself incarnates this method for their users. Let’s understand step-by-step how to do it:
Google launch an auto-delete service in May 2019. This feature is almost the same in smartphones and desktops except for accessing your Google account.
You can select any option which suits better for you and click on next. That’s it.
The cache remembers parts of pages, like images, to help them open faster during your next visit. The cache also stores your personal information, like what website you visited and your sign-in details.
The cache could be as risky as Cookies. Deleting cache can elevate the websites’ loading time as all info will be deleted, and websites will be load slowly in a fresh start. But it doesn’t look troublesome. Let’s see how to delete browser cache:
You can also delete any one of them by unchecking the options that you do not want to delete. Furthermore, you can click on browsing history and see websites you visited. If you want to delete any particular website’s history, click on that website and tap on clear data.
This method is the father of all weapons and panacea for all diseases. This method is not recommended until you have a harsh emergency because it will delete your All Data. It will sign you out from all sites, and your offline data also deleted, which is stored through the websites you visited.
If you still want to delete your data, then tap on clear, and your complete data will be deleted.
Truly said by a wise man! Prevent the problem from appearing is better than running anxiously for a Cure. You can stop the saving activity or pause the activity to save. Let’s start with how to prevent saving any activity:
The above “Pause activity method” works well for Android, iPhone, iPads, and Computers.
If you want to search the web without saving your search activity to your account, you can use private browsing mode in a browser. This is also called incognito mode, and save your history and activities only on your device means it will not add to the Google database.
Google voice search is an amazing feature that you can use to search and other activities. This feature is great for a physically disabled person and also for those who do not like to type with the mobile keyboard.
Google voice searches are also recorded and stored in the same way as text databases. You can listen to your records and also can delete them permanently; let see how:
In this complete guide, I accumulated the best practices on how to delete google search history and why it is so important. We highly dependent on Google, and Google takes our personal data in conversion, and it’s not bad.
In one way or another, we support Google to provide us best results, but we can’t authorize to ride over our privacy; we can’t let this happen to our data get leaked. That’s why I compiled the best techniques to delete our data from Google search history.
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