Remove Your Google Browsing History Before It's Too Late

Alectrona said:
meanwhile, i have the most amount of rep points because i'm just so bloody awesome :p
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SUPERSTAR!!!!
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Bliss said:
With the Android phone itself, it's a bit more than IP's as Arch explained.. I posted a story on it a bitty ago if you want to peep it..it tells exactly what they're doing....ghosting all your keystrokes.

http://www.whitewomenblackmen.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20323

*EDIT: LOL, you even responded to it. :smt052
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I only use google to search. LOL so that is my only concern. They have too many privacy problems to trust.


Funny event happened with either target or macy's. A dad got mail sent to his teen daughter about pregnancy. He was outraged about it. SO much that he went to the company to complain. A couple of days later, he sent an apology back stating that he was wrong about it and that she will be having a baby soon. Now what is so funny or scary about it. It turns out that the company has tracked what pregnant women are likely to buy and send magazines to them. That's right the company knew before the dad did. Had there been privacy policies they wouldn't know. It is a bit out of hand.
 
Bliss said:
With the Android phone itself, it's a bit more than IP's as Arch explained.. I posted a story on it a bitty ago if you want to peep it..it tells exactly what they're doing....ghosting all your keystrokes.

http://www.whitewomenblackmen.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20323

*EDIT: LOL, you even responded to it. :smt052
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Well, I'm old. Don't even remember what I ate for breakfast this morning!

I do remember the article tho. I have Verizon and they insist that their phones don't have this software installed.
 
archangel said:
I only use google to search. LOL so that is my only concern. They have too many privacy problems to trust.


Funny event happened with either target or macy's. A dad got mail sent to his teen daughter about pregnancy. He was outraged about it. SO much that he went to the company to complain. A couple of days later, he sent an apology back stating that he was wrong about it and that she will be having a baby soon. Now what is so funny or scary about it. It turns out that the company has tracked what pregnant women are likely to buy and send magazines to them. That's right the company knew before the dad did. Had there been privacy policies they wouldn't know. It is a bit out of hand.
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I read that story..crazy, huh...and get this..as a result of it....so you won't freak out that they are tracking you, Target now put the pampers and babyfood coupons next to things you wont need, like a leaf blower and shaving cream for example, ...but they are still guesstimating your due date which is why you get the coupon book in the first place.
 
Bliss said:
I read that story..crazy, huh...and get this..as a result of it....so you won't freak out that they are tracking you, Target now put the pampers and babyfood coupons next to things you wont need, like a leaf blower and shaving cream for example, ...but they are still guesstimating your due date which is why you get the coupon book in the first place.
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The sad thing is we barely have people in congress that understand the potential to come from this. It is going to get ugly.
 
chesbaygrl7 said:
Well, I'm old. Don't even remember what I ate for breakfast this morning!

I do remember the article tho. I have Verizon and they insist that their phones don't have this software installed.
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I heard about that carrier IQ stuff a while back. I think there is a way to get rid of it but, I don't remember how. I'm on Verizon also and they are pretty strict about things (sometimes too strict but, that's another story).

I have a Galaxy Nexus and, have had previous nexus phones. These phones , from my understanding are not affected by carrier IQ (I'm not totally sure about this) . It affects phones that are are what we Geeks call "skinned" They have the manufacture UI installed. This is done to make the phone more easier to use for most people vs. a pure Google phone like the Nexus.

I guess nothing is totally secure now-a-days.
 
Bliss said:
I was listening to a privacy expert on the radio today and she said say for example you have a heart condition or diabetes and do searches about it...your employer or future emp can then buy from Google your browsing history connected to your name.

Damn thats scary! :smt107
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JordanC said:
1. Go to Google.com and sign into your account.
2. Use the dropdown menu under your name in the upper right-hand corner to access your settings. You'll now be on your accounts overview page.
3. Find the section called Services and you'll see a link to "View, enable, or disable web history." Here you can remove all of your Web history or selected items. When you disable Web History it will remain turned off until you turn it back on.
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I followed all these steps, but didn't work. On step 3 part to remove history, there was no option, is there other way doing this??

JordanC said:
To get a detailed view of the information about you that Google keeps, go to "Products" from your accounts overview page. Click the button labeled "Dashboard." You'll see a listing of the Google products you use and links to edit your information.
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You can edit your info but I was unable to edit visted sites, can you pls provide a step by step instruction?

Thanx
 
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Bliss said:
I checked mine earlier today..and it said they had "zero files" on me. Hmm. Yet my YT is connected to my email account, so I don't know how they have zero.
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I don't use google search that often but got gmail account. If I log off my gmail account and go to yahoo search engine, are they still able to track?

With all the BS privacy issue gmail is trying to cross us over I am thinking about closing my acct, but I have so much contact info and enjoy the gmail and google voice, sigh....... should I just stick to hotmail or yahoo mail?? Any suggestion, any other good free email accts that you would recmd??

Thanx
 
Is Google connected to Photobucket? I had a weird thing happen today. I did what this thread recommended and went in and "paused" my web history. I tried to go into my PB account and couldn't access it either on my phone or my computer. On a whim, I went into my phone and logged into my gmail account (I also cleaned out my cache & cookies) and voila! I could log into my PB account in both places.
 
chesbaygrl7 said:
Is Google connected to Photobucket? I had a weird thing happen today. I did what this thread recommended and went in and "paused" my web history. I tried to go into my PB account and couldn't access it either on my phone or my computer. On a whim, I went into my phone and logged into my gmail account (I also cleaned out my cache & cookies) and voila! I could log into my PB account in both places.
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I can't imagine they are as they have Picasa. :confused:
 
JordanC said:
I can't imagine they are as they have Picasa. :confused:
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It was very weird. I could access PB yesterday, no problem. All of a sudden, today I couldn't get in. Even wrote to their customer support and had to give them all kinds of info right down to my mother's cousin's boyfriend's middle name, just to identify my account. :rolleyes: I don't know what I did that "unlocked" it but now I can access it. Just thought it was really coincidental that today was the day this whole Google thing was going down.
 
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