chibodees-flagpole:

world-shaker:

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google’s other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.

Here’s how you can do that.

Click through for the instructions :o)

I’M REBLOGGING THIS AGAIN TO MAKE THINGS SIMPLE. I will give you the instructions because the page took a fuck ton to load for me and it’s only three steps so why not just outright publish it? Geez.

SO. First things first:

        Go log into your google account.

Second:

        Go to https://www.google.com/history

Third:

        Click “remove all Web History.”

The reason you’ll want to do this is because if you don’t then you’ll have all your information collected from all of the searches you’ve done.

So my past searches of the kinky lesbian sort? Documented if I don’t do this by March 1st. Hell they’ve probably already been documented somewhere. I know they used to do this and banks can discriminate because of it when giving out loans. (Don’t do too many cancer related searches unless you have cancer ok? They’ll tell you that they suspect you have cancer and won’t give you money for loans and stuff.)

Once you click the “remove all web history” button it actually keeps google from documenting any further searches so you’re safe unless you change your web history settings on google again.

You have to do it for every account you own. It’s not a blanket computer type deal.

Hope the info was helpful! <3