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How to delete your Google browsing history ahead of new privacy policy

Tomorrow Google will launch a new privacy policy which could allow services like YouTube to access your browsing history – but there’s still time to opt out.

TOMORROW GOOGLE WILL introduce a new privacy policy which allows it to gather, store and use your personal information – meaning services like YouTube could be able to access your browsing history.

When the new policy comes into effect, all data collected on users until that date (1 March) will be assigned to their online identity represented by the Gmail and YouTube accounts, TechNewsDaily reports. Users will not be able to opt out of the privacy policy once it takes effect, without abandoning Google services.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organisation based in San Francisco, has advised all users to delete their browsing history, Digital Journal reports.

The following simple steps will limit Google’s ability to track your movements online and send you customised search results:

1. Sign into your account

2. Click the dropdown menu in the upper-right hand corner of your screen (by your username)

3. Click accounts settings

4. Find the “Services” section

5. Beside “Services” there is a sub-section that reads “Go to Web History”

6. Click “Remove all Web History”

From here, you can remove all of your previous history or selected items and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future. Once you disable your Web History it will remain turned off until you turn it on again.

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new privacy policy which allows it to gather, store and use your personal information – meaning services like YouTube could be able to access your browsing history.

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    Mute Sean Partidge
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    Dec 12th 2022, 8:47 AM

    That might work if they updated itself. 8 hours on Friday with no updates other thant flight was taking off ten minutes ago

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    Mute Scott Crossfield
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    Dec 12th 2022, 9:17 AM

    @Sean Partidge: airlines update that side

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    Mute sean o'dhubhghaill
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    Dec 12th 2022, 11:14 AM

    @Sean Partidge: Not the airport’s responsibility.

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    Mute The Divils Avocado
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    Dec 12th 2022, 9:32 AM

    I suppose this is the DAA’s fault too.

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    Mute John Barry
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    Dec 12th 2022, 10:23 AM

    Stuck in Stansted. 9.50 Flight to Dublin cancelled at 11.30 last night with no notification untill I went online to look. No flights until tomorrow & have to get to Gatwick. It’s absolutely crazy here.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Dec 12th 2022, 1:30 PM

    @John Barry: Hope you all get in the air soon. If only there were regular updates and places to charge your phones, it would be less stressful all right.
    (Put on a mask though, I’ve two friends down with Covid after a return flight where no one bothered.)

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    Mute Keth Warsaw
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    Dec 12th 2022, 12:31 PM

    Cancelled flights? Luxury!
    In my day we had to walk through airport – none a this cosy security checks. All and sundry (middle class if ya don’t mind) dressed resplendently singin’ tut rain in Spain, as such. Young generation xyz etc don’t know their livin’ what with over bookins, plane rage, terror-types and Ryanairs most bew-tee-full colour co-ordination and oppulant seating.
    Cancelled flights? They’re lucky! We used to dreeem a been cancelled.

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    Mute Liam McGrath
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    Dec 12th 2022, 11:50 PM

    Out via Dublin Airport recently. Dirty and filthy. Everywhere from the road to the aircraft. Retail staff just don’t even know what country they’re in.
    millions of others go through this.
    Almost 3 hours waiting on a stand, after a 9 hour flight. Watching winter operations training outside the aircraft while families onboard contacted loved ones to say We’re parked on the new runway to allow other airlines taxi into non contact stands.
    Plenty of stands vacant and not in use.
    I simply hate having to fly anywhere but jaysus, can the Airport operator not get anything right.

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    Mute Ciaran
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    Dec 13th 2022, 12:00 AM

    @Liam McGrath: bit of a skewed viewpoint

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    Mute Liam McGrath
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    Dec 13th 2022, 12:07 AM

    @Ciaran: correct, out was bad, inbound was worse.
    God love anyone travelling via Dublin.

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    Mute Paul Gorry
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    Dec 13th 2022, 12:04 AM

    Going to Dublin airport these days is a bit like your prepay meter. A load of ball ox.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Dec 12th 2022, 10:45 AM

    Dubliners say they’re more than welcome to our share of the freezing fog, we’ve had enough of it on the east coast!

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