How to delete your Google browsing history in three simple steps . . . before it's too late to hide your secrets

By JULIAN GAVAGHAN
Last updated at 8:33 PM on 23rd February 2012

There is just a week to go until Google controversially changes its privacy policy to allow it to gather, store and use personal information about its users.

But there is one way to stymie the web giant's attempts to build a permanent profile of you that could include personal information including age, gender, locality and even sexuality.

From March 1, you won't be able to opt out of the new policy, which has been criticised by privacy campaigners who have filed a complaint to U.S. regulators.

But before that date you can delete your browsing history and, which will limit the extent to which Google records your every move - including your embarrasing secrets. Here's how:

Three simple steps to delete your Google browsing history... before it's too late | Mail Online

what embarrassing secrets?

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I don't have any, but some may!

I don't want Google to know I google search engines.

Your attraction to Justin Bieber!

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Goddamnit! I used a damn proxy when I searched for pics of him shirtless!

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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors. ~ John Stuart Mill

Gypsy Soul Memories
Scuba Diver Life
Success Freaks

Not even going to mention your Twilight obsession.

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"The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs."
-- F.A. Hayek

No way. My 20-year-old uses my computer too, and I need my web history enabled so that I can learn all of his embarrassing secrets!