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You cannot delete your search history in any meaningful way from google. You can delete it locally and they have some account tools. They also have all of their
by stuntkite 6y ago
You cannot delete your search history in any meaningful way from google. You can delete it locally and they have some account tools. They also have all of their request logs, trends, and other compiled data. The best thing you can do is set up your own VPN and do other steps to anonymize as a constant practice.
- haolez 6y agoWon't the absent of traffic on your "normal" accounts make you stand out?
- stuntkite 6y agoMaybe I wasn't clear, to protect your privacy you cannot have "normal" traffic. There are some browser plugs, I think chrome banned them, but you can still build them and install them yourself that will constantly make random searches in the background and click every advertising link on a page. If you have "normal" traffic, something like that may help. There is no free lunch in this problem. You have to consistently protect yourself and your household network to avoid tracking. Also you will probably never be able to stop it fully. Understanding the ecosystem and how tracking works will help a lot and understanding your individual tolerance for tracking is crucial. I personally think it's hygienic to test out anti-tracking measures and I go for sprints with all of them running but also I use the internet like a nearly normal user a lot of the time. If you want to take steps to learn more a good place to start is using an old computer or raspberry pi and try out some network level filtering like PiHole, having separate networks for IoT devices/mobile devices/home users/guests and doing routing to a VPN you set up yourself via a cloud host selectively for traffic, times of day, and device.