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Offline CG6468

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Google Accounts
« on: March 02, 2012, 08:00:40 AM »
I use Google Chrome and have 2 Gmail accounts. I stopped using Google Search a while back.

With their new data mining crap, should I change things?

Thank you.
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Re: Google Accounts
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 02:47:34 PM »
1. Sign Into Your Google Account.
2. Go to https://www.google.com/history
3. Click “remove all Web History.”
4. Click “ok.”

It is here by bring to your notice, that removing your Web History only puts a temporary hold in it. The Web History will remain off, unless you act other wise and enable it over again.

By enabling the Web History all over again, Google will track down and store the records for an indefinite period of time. While it is enables, the same will be partially anonymized after the time frame of 18 months. Along with that, there will be certain other uses like you will be saved from the customized search results related to you being sent to others etc. Thus practice the above mentioned steps and protect your private information from being recorded and used against your consent.

Note that removing your Web History also pauses it. Web History will remain off until you enable it again.

[UPDATE 2/22/2012] It is important to note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. More information about transparency Report.
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Re: Google Accounts
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 03:25:45 PM »
Thanks. I knew that and have done it, but I was just wondering.....
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Re: Google Accounts
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2012, 03:34:42 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on March 02, 2012, 08:00:40 AM
I use Google Chrome and have 2 Gmail accounts. I stopped using Google Search a while back.

With their new data mining crap, should I change things?

Thank you.

What search engine are you now using?
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Re: Google Accounts
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2012, 07:57:47 AM »
Quote from: rich_t on March 02, 2012, 03:34:42 PM
What search engine are you now using?

I've been using Dogpile.
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Re: Google Accounts
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2012, 04:41:31 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on March 03, 2012, 07:57:47 AM
I've been using Dogpile.

Man...  I didn't even realize that one was still around.
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." --Norman Thomas, 1944

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Re: Google Accounts
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2012, 04:44:37 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on March 03, 2012, 04:41:31 PM
Man...  I didn't even realize that one was still around.

It almost went out of business, but now it's back, better than it was. I've had no problems with it.
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Re: Google Accounts
« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2012, 08:23:30 AM »
Quote from: CG6468 on March 03, 2012, 07:57:47 AM
I've been using Dogpile.

I, too, use Dogpile.  Seems to work nicely.
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