How to download and delete your information on Google

Google probably understands you much better than your friends and relatives. According to the policy, your Google data is shared with relevant advertisers and reliable third parties to display ads that are suitable for you. You can trust Google will store personal data You are safe, but when you see the history of data violations, I recommend that you improve your privacy. In particular, if you do not feel secure, you should delete your information on Google.

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However, thanks to Google’s data transparency policy, you can still check and verify data collected and stored by Google on the server. If necessary, you can still delete that data. In this article, I will guide you how to download or delete my data on Google.

See your data

Test data operating on Google

Google store almost everything about you – everything you do when logging into Google – from searching on the web to the history of Google Maps and the history of watching YouTube. Fortunately, Google also provides a tool to view and check your data stored on the server.

That tool is named “My Activity”it allows you to check all your online activities stored on Google. This tool will be very helpful when you want to check your data, assuming if you want to find activities that have been done last month or want to delete all your data stored on Google.

You can check your activity data by the following steps:

Open tools “My Activity” and log in your Google account
Check “Bundle View” (on the left) to see your history or use the option “Item View” To check your product history wisely

Download all your data from Google

Although you can check your data with My Activity, due to the large amount of Google data collected, it is not easy to use this tool.

Thankfully, Google has provided users with another tool that allows you to download data and analyze them on your computer, in your experience, this is a good way to check your huge amount of data stored by Google.

To download your data from Google, we follow these steps:

Open “Download your data” On your browser
Select the services you need to download and press Next
Configure “File type” and “Archive size (max)” as you like and choose “Send download link via email” In the “Delivery method” section, and press “Create Archive”. You can choose other download methods, but they are outside the scope of this article.
Finally, open your email and check mail from Google. In the Emal, you will see a download link, you just need to open it and download your data down.

Delete your information on Google

Personalization of advertising

Google is one of the main advertising networks tracking your online activities for a single purpose – displaying personalized ads for you. However, if you are serious about privacy and do not want to see ads based on your online activities and interests, then you can follow the steps below to turn off this feature:

Open “Ads Settings”
Turn off features Ad Personalization

Disabled Google history

If you want to erase your history, and don’t want to be monitored by Google, then you just need to turn off your Google history.

This procedure will save you a little time to erase history. However, you must do the steps required by Google to stop online monitoring activities, … that is, pause your history:

Open “My Activity”
Press “Activity Controls” to the left of the browser
Choose the type of activity or product you want to suspend tracking and turning it off. For example, I will pause “Location History”
You will see a window about suspending the history, pressing Pause and confirm your actions if required
Finally, repeat the same process with all activities or products you want to turn off.

Delete operating history on Google

If you want to avoid leaving any trace of your activity and ready to delete all the data stored by Google, then you should erase your entire history. Although, it sounds like this is a big task, but it really only takes a few minutes to do this:

Open “My Activity”
Click on the stepfather 3 dots on the right corner and select “Delete Activity by”
Now, choose the time and product with the history you want to delete. Note that you can choose “All Time” and “All Products” To erase your entire Google history
Press Deleteand confirm the request if asked.

Delete your account link

If you want to disappear from the internet (although this is almost impossible) by deleting all your accounts.

Deseat.me A tool that can access accounts that are linked to your Google and delete them. It requires you to select accounts before deleting them, so you can consider the accounts and choose them separately before deleting them:

Open “Deseat.me”. Press “Get started”, then press “Sign in with gmail” To log in with Google.
Google will ask you to approve before providing the right to Deseat. Click the button Allow If you want to continue.
Deseat.me will display all accounts associated with your Google. You just need to press Delete To delete the loads linked to Google.

Delete history on the browser

Cache and cookies are the browser properties used by web apps and websites to store local data on your computer. It may happen that some of your data is still temporarily stored, allowing Google to select and synchronize that data back to the server. That is why you have to delete them to protect privacy.

Press Ctrl + Shift + Del To open the dialog box to delete history.
In Google Chrome And some browsers use Chromium, you will see the dialog box named “Clear Browsing Data”. Switch to the tab Advanced, select “All Time” In the “Time Range” section, select all the options, and press “Clear data”.
In Mozilla Firefox And related browsers, you will see the dialog box named “Clear Rehnt History”. Select Everything In the “Time Range to Clear” section, select all the options, and press “Clear Now”.
In Microsoft Edge, You will see “Clear Browsing Data” Located on the right. Select all options and press Clear.