Every day we surf the Internet, but there are browsers like Google that completely save each of our activities. Although this can be advantageous and at the same time not, but this is defined by you.
Here you will find enough information to be able to know what to do regarding Google history. Though We recommend that you strengthen security of your browsing, but also comply with periodic cleaning so that you can enjoy fast browsing.
You don’t understand why if you delete the history, you browse faster. Well, we’ll explain that later. We also leave a few simple steps for you to clean Google History.
Why does Google keep records of everything we do on our computers?
We all know that Google is one of our main search enginesbut also our main browser, and like any browser, it keeps a history of all our activities that we carry out when we browse the Internet.
basically google saves a log with specific details of files and data, for a new navigation, in other words, it stores a history, mainly to catch the caches, and thus achieve faster loading of the pages that we have already visited. It is also used by many people to return to places we already visited.
The history is only recorded for our registered user, and every time we open a session or synchronization on other devices with the same user, we will synchronize with him, the histories, and they will be shared.
Google itself saves the URLs of the pages we visit, a draft cache (so-called, because it is the last image received from the web), the time we last, cookies, and the passwords we enter.
The passwords will not be saved without our consent, because Google knows how confidential these are. Before storing them, a mini notice will not appear that does not say if we want to save the username and password, and it is up to us whether we reject or accept it.
What are all the types of records that Google keeps from us and what is each one for?
As we mentioned before, Google keeps a simple but complete history of what we do while browsing. In this section we are going to explain a little more about the records it stores.
Search history
search history is simply used to store a record everything we have researched on the Internet.
It is very useful because it allows us to re-enter visited sites. Many confuse the search history with the browsing history, since there is no denying that both are quite similar and their definition concepts are almost the same, but in reality one takes care of only those searches that we have carried out, and the other of the sites that we have visited.
browsing history
This is the main thing that is saved, because it is used to reload the pages in a faster way. It focuses more than anything on saving the cache of each of the images that the site contains, animations and others. In short, the entire structure of each of the websites.
Just as it saves the cache, it also does it with passwords and users. Which is important, called cookies (cookies), these cookies are small computer packages, which keep our session open in those sites we have been, thanks to them we won’t have to log in every time that we are on the page (social networks or others).
location history
This history monitors our life more, because it keeps a list of each of the places we have been, and from where we have connected to the Internet. Although its main function is to locate ourselves wherever we are.
This history is also saved when we use Google maps, and whenever we have GPS active, although it has been rumored by the networks that Google (both browser and Google maps) they can enable GPS and know where we are whenever we connect to a network.
History of Photos and videos
This photo history is basically the one that allows us to save the caches of each of the photos or videos that we have seen on the web.
Its purpose is simple, (accelerate the loading time of the websites), because the pages are loaded very slowly for the first time, due to the amount of photos and videos they contain, also by the definition in which they offer it, and when this history is used, a copy of those files is saved, so that when visiting the site again, the load is faster.
Although certainly It is one of the histories that takes up the most space in our browserIt is also one of the most important if we are those who like to return a lot to the sites we have visited before.
Why is it good to delete our search history every certain period of time?
There are different reasons that prompt us to periodically delete our history on Google. As we already saw they store a lot of information about uswhich is beneficial, but in turn not.
For example, we keep our bank or social network passwords, and we lend the computer, the other person will be able to access each of the passwords that we have stored there, or even worse, if our Google account is hacked, all the information can be stolen private from us.
For that reason It is recommended that you never save any password of any kind in browsers. But this is not the only thing, because when we store a lot of information for each navigation, Google collapses and navigation may take a long time.
The high information, It can also affect our device or computerbecause they take up space in the internal storage.
When we talk about security and privacy, it should be noted that even eliminating all records, we are not fully protectedbut 80%, which is quite a large number.
What is Google My Activity and what is this tool for?
My activity is a tool included in Google to accumulate each and every one of the activities we do on the Internet. We can always find this present (Google Search Engine, Chrome, Android, Gmail, Google Maps…), this being practically a strong tracker of our life in cybernetics.
Although it is already installed naturally in the browser, if you do not have it as well we can do it manually. but do this is to allow Google to save all the information of what we do on the Internet. Many people consider that My Activity is a twin brother of Orwell, although this is still in debate because others think that it is the opposite.
well we know this tool saves all our actionsbut it also allows us to delete all that trace that we have been leaving stored, and thus delete those activities that we do not want anyone to find out about.
How much can you know about us?
This is one of the most common questions in the majority of Google users, but to the pity of many, it can save even the smallest of our activities, that is, Google knows a lot about us.
Keep such a detailed record, such as the time we were there, the content that was shown to us, videos, and many others…
What is the background of Google?
This tool has a background, beyond just giving us the power to control the activities we do while browsing. The truth is that use each of our actions to get an average of the most visited contentand offer suitable advertisements for each page, this is your method of monetary income.
In other words, the business consists of offer a free service in exchange for our activities and information about what we like the most.
Are all these histories a real risk to our privacy? Advantages and disadvantages
risks vary according to the situation that is presented to us. Although the most common is that people who use the same computer see browsing that is uncomfortable for us. But for what you yourself can give your opinion on this.
We leave you the advantages and disadvantages of Google saving a history of activities:
Advantage
- We keep a record of each person who accesses our computer. For example, if we are parents, this would be an excellent tool to know what our children do and do not do.
- If we are one of those, who constantly visit a page, this would be excellent, since the page already maintains files downloaded in the browser, and load faster for the next ones.
- If we are lovers of games, It helps us a lot to load each of the levelsbecause of the cache it keeps from them.
- Can always stay logged inand when we want, so as not to have to enter our username and password every time.
Disadvantages
- If we don’t have an account, to protect all our stuff in Windows, anyone can access and steal our usernames and passwords for each of our networks or accounts.
- When our browser maintains a lot of information about our activities, the browser works with less speed, as well as navigation.
- It slows down the operation of the PC because keep a lot of cacheand the computer assimilates these, as garbage.
Steps to delete the history of everything you’ve searched on Google from your device
To delete the history of our Google browsing, we must enter the browser first (Although these steps are to be able to do it on a computer).
After having entered the browser, let’s to the options that are located after the three vertical dots, at the top right of the window. From the list that is displayed, we select where it says “Record” and another list will appear, and we select again “Record”.
Although we can also enter the history, using the keyboard, pressing Ctrl + H keys. In another simpler way is entering the address bar: “chrome://history/”.
When all the history loads, we look in the left side panel “Clear browsing data” and it will send us to a new tab whose address is “chrome://settings/clearBrowserData”.
In this new tab we can delete all our histories. Then a small box appears with two tabs, one for basic cleaning and the other for advanced cleaning.
in the basicwe can select with a bullet, if we want to delete the Browsing History, Cookies, and the images saved in Cache.
For the advanced tab, we can select Browsing history, Download history, Cookies, Image cache, Passwords, Autofill data, Content settings, and Application data.
Whatever our method to delete the history, to finish we click on “Delete data”.
Android method
For Android the steps are technically the same. We simply have to enter the browser and enter its options, then search for history or write in the address bar “Chrome://history/” and click where it says “Clear browsing data”.
There we select with bullets everything we want to be eliminated and click on…
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