In an era where every search, roll up or log in contributes to building your digital profile, the idea of cleaning your online traces becomes more attractive than ever.
1. Deleting Google activities
The first and most important step is to delete all of your Google activities. Visit myactivity.google.com, log in and select Delease activities. You can select Always to delete all your search history, location, YouTube videos, or other steps. This is a platform to clean up your digital traces on all devices.
2. sung up web browsing and search history
Next, go to Control Activities and turn off three options: Web & Application Activities, Location History, and YouTube History.
This action helps you become "invisible" to Google's data collection system, preventing future tracking.
3. Preventing new data collection
After deleting the old data, go to Google account settings → Data & privacy, then turn off all tracking modes.
When completed, Google will no longer record web browsing activities, locations, or application history in background mode.
4. Automation of privacy
You can set up automatic periodic data deleted. Access myactivity.google.com/auto-delete, select automatically deleted operations after 3, 18 or 36 months. This feature ensures your data is always updated without manual operations.
5. Connection security
Finally, combine a virtual private network (VPN) with a privacy-focused browser like DuckDuckGo, Brave Search or Tor Browser.
In addition, changing your password every three to six months is a practical way to protect yourself from the risk of cyber attacks.
Digital tracing is a way to help you regain control of your personal data.
