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How to Delete Your Google Web History Before the New Privacy Kicks In

February 27, 2012

If you haven’t read of Google’s new privacy policy yet, then its about time you did. Because starting March 1 2012, the not so popular policy will become effective and your personal browsing history will be gathered and stored by the search giant and will be shared across all Google services. Now you may not want to stop using Google’s products altogether to avoid accepting the policy changes, but you can at least delete your browsing history before that date, so that you can at least limit Google’s web profiling. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to delete your Google web history before the new privacy policy kicks in.

How to Delete Your Google Web History

1. Sign into your Google account.

2. Click on your name at the top right corner of the screen and then select Account Settings.

account settings

3. In the Services section, click the Go to web history link adjacent to the View, enable, or disable web history option.

How to Delete Your Google Web History

4. Click Remove all Web History at the top of the screen to remove all instances of your browsing history.

remove all web history

5. You may be asked to sign in again to confirm that you are the owner of the account.

6. In the next screen, click OK to confirm deletion of your entire web history.

clear google web history

By deleting your entire web history, you are also in fact stopping your web history from being tracked in the future.

However, you need to remember that Google will continue to gather your browsing data for its internal use. You just will not see search results based on your personal browsing history.

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You can also sign out of Google while browsing but remember that your browsing preferences will still be tracked via your IP address. And you can resume your search history anytime by heading back to your Account settings, navigating to the Web History settings page and clicking Resume button.

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  1. Kate Brown Wilson says

    February 27, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    Wow! this is a great information, to be honest I never clear out my cache or the history of my browser, maybe I should clean up my history, sometimes it causes my browser to crash.

    Reply
  2. Paul Salmon says

    February 28, 2012 at 11:02 pm

    I wonder how many people know about the fact that Google tracks their Web history? I’ll have to remember to delete mine as I hate being tracked.

    Reply
  3. Geek Revealed says

    February 29, 2012 at 11:21 am

    I never knew that Google also stores web history. I am gonna delete it right away.

    Reply

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