Does the idea of Google knowing your every move creep you out?
Think about it, the tech giant knows every car that you’ve ever looked up and it knows more personal details, like what medical conditions you have, which coworkers you’ve searched for and even your home address. Tap or click here to turn off Google location tracking.
Google knows all of these things from your many internet searches. It’s understandable if you consider this is a terrible privacy risk — because it is. We’ll tell you how to erase everything you have ever searched for on its site and how to stop data tracking. Let’s start with your Google activity.
First, let’s talk about Google’s account settings tool, Activity Controls. Here, you will see all of your search activity across multiple platforms. This is also where you can edit or delete the information you find.
To find Activity Controls, head to Google’s home page and log in to your account. Tap the circle in the upper corner with your image or initials inside and a menu will open. Click Manage your Google Account.
Click on the “Manage your data & personalization” section of the Privacy & Personalization category. Under Activity controls, you can choose to pause Web & App activity tracking, Location History, YouTube History and more. To see other options, click “Manage your activity controls.”
Now, Google will still be able to track your browsing activities, but it won’t be able to personalize your searches with ads or keep any of your recordings. Now, let’s talk about completely deleting your search history.
The process of erasing your Google search history is actually quite simple. Your first move is to go to Google’s My Activity page. To get here, follow the steps described above, but scroll down to Activity and timeline, and click My Activity.
So many of us spend a good chunk of our day on a computer. Do we really want to spend that time staring at a default desktop background? A little individuality can go a long way in making your day.
Whether you’re trying to beat the Monday blues or gain some Friday afternoon inspiration, a fun and free desktop wallpaper is sure to do the trick.
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Windows released its newest operating system, Windows 10, back in July 2015. Since then, it has become a popular OS.
It is constantly updated, and overall has been pretty well received. As of 2018, Windows 10 become more widespread than Windows 7, thereby becoming the most single used Windows version overall.
In an effort to prevent you from deleting or modifying files that you really shouldn’t alter without the proper knowledge, Windows has hidden these files from view by default. The average user doesn’t know the difference, at least not until there is a problem.
