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To clear your history in Google Chrome, you'll need to head to the dedicated "History" menu on your desktop or mobile app. You can clear your history from the last ...

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Google Play now has separate privacy controls for activity and personalization. Know how to manage Play Store tracking and ...

Google Maps is an essential traveling companion thanks to its wealth of useful features. It stores a history of everything you searched and places you visited (if you turned on location data). This ...

On the Google My Activity page, one of the very first controls shown is Web & App Activity. Google will soon break up that setting with a new “Workspace search history” preference. Update 5/19: After ...

In a wonderfully clear example of “dark patterns” designed to mislead users and retain control over their data, Google continues tracking your location even when you turn off Location History and are ...