Google Web/Search History Disable Does Absolutely Nothing.HT: Jacques Mattheij:
There seems to be some kind of misunderstanding about the Google Search/Web History disable switch that google provides to its more privacy conscious users.
It’s not exactly the most advertised feature (you won’t find it in your profile page) to begin with, but once you do find it (it’s on the history page, you have to click the little ‘gear’ on the top right and then click the button to switch it off) there is no guarantee whatsoever that google does anything except for changing what they display to you.
So if you are under the impression that this changes something about what data google collects on you or how they will use that data then you are likely wrong.
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So the only thing that fancy switch does is to limit what you see, but it definitely does not limit google’s ability (or desire) to collect data about you, and you can rest assured that that is exactly what they’ll be doing.So all you’re being given here is a false sense of privacy.
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