On March 1st , Google will implement its new , unifiedprivacy insurance , which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as information it compile on you in the hereafter . Earlier this workweek , we showed you how todelete your Google Web Historyin order to prevent Google from unite your internet History data with the data it has about you on its other products to provide you with personalised advert or mesmerism across all of its products . You may also wish to delete your YouTube Viewing and Search History , which can reveal particularly sensitive information about you , let in your location , stake , geezerhood , intimate orientation , faith , and health concern .
remark that disabling Viewing and Search History in your YouTube account will not preclude Google from gathering and put in this info and using it for interior purposes . It also does not change the fact that any data gathered and store by Google could besoughtby law enforcement .
With Viewing and Search History enable , Google will keep these records indefinitely ; with it disabled , they will be partially anonymized after 18 month , and certain sort of uses , including send you customized search results , will be prevent . An soul concerned about privacy may also desire to set up a secondary Google account for browsing and sharing YouTube videos . She could then download all of her subsist YouTube videos to her information processing system , delete them from her chief Google visibility , and then apply a separate web web browser to upload them to a new secondary Google story . If you need to do more to reduce the records Google keep , the advice in EFF’sSix Tips to Protect Your Search Privacywhite paper remains relevant .
The following steps will blue-pencil your viewing and hunt history on YouTube . If you have multiple YouTube accounts , you will have to complete these stair for each score .
1 . sign in to your Google account .
2 . Go to https://www.youtube.com
3 . get across on your icon .
4 . Click “ Video Manager ”
5 . Click “ History ”
6 . come home “ cleared all watch history . ”
7 . come home “ suspension viewing story . ”
8 . Click “ Search chronicle . ”
9 . flick “ Clear all search story . ”
10 . Click “ interruption search history . ”
If you have multiple YouTube chronicle , you will have to complete these steps for each account .
Republished with permit fromElectronic Frontier Foundation .
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