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Clear your Google Web History before the big privacy change

2012-02-24
hey guys I'm Sharon Vaknin for CNET and if you've been ignoring all of googles warnings about a new privacy policy here's what you need to know on March 1st Google will take your web history what you've googled what pages you visited and share that data across all of its web services you see right now each web service like Google Docs and Google search has its own privacy policy it's good for you but not so much for the goog with this new policy Google will use information it collects in say Google Docs and give you better search results or suggestions based on what you document it's pretty invasive but Google insists it'll make your daily life easier we'll see about that if you want to erase any web activity that Google has collected from Google Plus YouTube and other Google accounts before this happens here's how sign in to your Google account then head to google.com slash history in your browser if your web history is enabled you'll see a list of any searches you've made or sites you visited recently now click the grey remove all web history button here then ok and your history will be cleared and free from exploitation by Google doing this also stops Google from tracking any more activity like this but if you change your mind just click resume if you have any questions let me know on Twitter for cnet.com I'm Sharon Vaknin you
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