This New Year, Turn Off Google Trackers That Record Your Online Activity: Here's How

In the age of data mining and trackers, it's best to keep your online awareness updated.

While antitrust investigations and reports about user safety have rung the alarm bells in Google and Meta campuses, there's still a long way to go before tech companies become truly transparent about what data they collect from users and how it is used beyond "personalised suggestions."

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Keeping trackers switched on may help influencers and others who thrive on their digital presence, but for those worried about their user privacy trackers only mean added scrutiny. This new year, rid yourself of Google tracking. If you've ever wondered what data Google is collecting and whether you can turn it off, keep reading.

Turning off Google Activity: Here's how

To access your Google activity, visit this website - myactivity.google.com. The website offers three options - web and app activity, YouTube history, and location history. Each option has a corresponding box which you can simply untick and save changes to prevent Google from logging this data.

If you wish to keep the trackers on, simply ensure the relevant boxes are ticked. Besides this, you can delete and see any activity that has stored on your Google account, including services like Chrome and Google Play pool of services.

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Need more customisation? Worry not, there are multiple sub-settings for you to customise what Google can track and what it cannot.

Google's activity page states that its tracking mechanism helps "Google make services more useful for you, like helping you rediscover the things you've searched for, read, and watched."

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On the Google Activity page, you can also search for certain activities that you may like to delete. In addition, you can filter all activities by date.

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