tellme how to delete goggles information

Re: tellme how to delete goggles information

John K Jordan

Change your identity.

Re: tellme how to delete goggles information

JL

What John said.

There are companies that claim to do an "Internet clean up" - they charge you astronomical amounts of money and they really don't work all that well.

You can try to search online for "Internet clean up" and see if you can find something that you think is reasonable.

Re: tellme how to delete goggles information

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

What is there is there ... permanently. Any time you surf the 'Net, you leave a footprint and information about your likes and dislikes. Every message you leave on a forum, such as this, or public media, such as FaceBook, is collected and filed away by one of the search engines. Deleting past posts and messages is to little avail since there are websites, such as the Wayback Machine, which can retrieve all.

Those in human resources who want information about a prospective job seeker know this, and look for posts on FaceBook. No doubt lawyers do the same. Many of my patients tell me that they researched me on the'Net before making contact (there are forums where patients may discuss their therapeutic experiences). We warn children and adolescents about posting impulsively and with poor political correctness. It will catch up with them, one day.

I do not post on any public media other than a couple of woodworking forums and a couple of closed (?!) professional forums. Google are welcome to my ramblings on woodworking forums, and my professional forums are about strictly for sharing clinical information and asking clinical questions.

What is done is done. Just do not add to it from here on in.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Alternate search engine

paul in AZ

instead of using Google for your searches switch your default search engine to 'Duck duck go'. They don't track your searches. Also, the top items or sometimes first page of searches are not paid ads. It works pretty much the same as Google.

I've used it for some time now and am quite happy with it.

https://duckduckgo.com

Not just the search engine

David Yoho

Not using Google as your search engine is only a small tip of the iceberg. I admit I use Google but they are so much more than that when it comes to collecting data.

If you own and use an Android phone (Google operating system) you probably have and perhaps use many of the other Google Apps from Google Maps, Location Service, to YouTube and others. Google's tentacles stretch out in many directions. One of the keys to some sort of privacy is to check the settings not only in Google's Chrome web browser but the other offerings in an effort to limit what they collect. Even then, it's limited what you can do.

Goggle info? Eye protection gets my information?

Re: tellme how to delete goggles information

Walter Ahlgrim

The truth is Google, Face book and Microsoft are all giving you “free” services. We are all smart enough to know there is no free lunch.

If you are getting something without paying cash for it you are giving something else of value instead in most cases this is personal information and data. I like to say you are the product and the “free service “is the bait to get you in the mouse trap. You got to love Goggles mantra of “DO no evil” while selling innermost thoughts for cash and censoring the internet for the Europeans and China.

Yes windows 10 does collect the last few bits of info Goggles does not yet collect.

Using a Lenox computer with a paid virtual private network is your only hope of limiting your public footprint.

Walta

Re: tellme how to delete goggles information

Walter Ahlgrim

PS

No you can’t delete their business model !!!

Please Clarify

Yonak

Buck, not by way of pushing back but, to truly understand your question : Exactly what do want to happen and for what reason ? You say you don't want information about you collected .. why not, exactly, and what kind of information ? Have you noticed any damage ?