Here’s What Google Knows About You (and how you can delete it) - Comments Page 1

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Hi Bob,
I totally agree with you! It's a fair deal.
I've been using quite a number of Google's "free" services for many years now, and have not been disappointed with their behaviour.
As long as the user is fully aware of what he/she is permitting Google to use, there should be no reason to worry.

Nice article about how to delete data information Google is storing on you.

I use Google maps and see videos on Youtube from time to time,but I don't have a Google account.How do I delete information that Google has on me if I don't have an account to begin with?

I receive e-mail messages from people who have a Gmail account.I imagine Google collects data on me without me having a Gmail e-mail address.How do delete that data as well?

I have to agree Bob. Google rocks.

My biggest beef with online advertising is how irritating many ads are. Quite possibly most. It does not endear me to advertisers when ads constantly flicker on the screen when I'm trying to read something. And most ads are for things I am not interested in. To be fair, I'm not interested in a lot, I already have a houseful of things I'm trying to get rid of. Ditto for my computer.

Hi, Bob,
Thanks for an interesting article. I agree with Fred. Google rocks!!!

Just to add to the paranoia of the USofA. Did you know that there is actually a book with your name, your home address, and your personal phone number?
It is called the telephone book. :-)

Well, I checked. Google has no information on me.

I don't use Chrome, Gmail, Google search (except anonymously via StartPage), and only ever sign into the account I had to make when I (briefly) had an Android phone 5 years or more ago, when you say "Check what Google knows about you"...

I block most ads and ignore those that get through and don't need these to be "relevant" to somebody they think I am.

I doubt I'm losing out on anything worth having. There is life beyond Google.

"There is nothing sinister about this; Google is up front about what data it collects, what is shared with advertisers, and how to limit that data collection."

Try to keep your write ups facts based and without your opinions that are wrong. You are a naive blind tool if you think google does not have evil intentions. Perhaps your definition of evil is far off from reality! My goodness! Do I have to point out the obvious that 'using me as a commodity' is in itself wrong? I didnt make any money from it and I wasnt asked if I wanted to be spied on! Google has upped their evil game in everything they have been doing the last 5 yrs to curb the narrative and suppress conservatives! They are acting like tech lords who rule the internet! I suspect that you are in bed with google! Your comment defies reality! Thats exactly what lefties do!

BOB ARE YOU A LEFTIE? PLEASE INFORM YOUR AUDIENCE SO CONSERVATIVES CAN ACT APPROPRIATELY. DO YOU HAVE THE INTEGRITY TO INFORM US THAT YOU ARE CARRYING WATER FOR GOOGLE?

EDITOR'S NOTE: So I tell you how to DELETE the data that Google has collected, and limit or stop any future data collection... and you think I'm carrying water for Google? Strange logic. Since I started publishing in 1995, I've been careful to keep my personal opinions on social and political matters out of the mix. As another reader said, "there is enough cancel culture out there".

I wish they WOULD sell my shoe size (womens size 13 narrow) to a company that sells cheap shoes, LOL!

Google had been censoring and bouncing my emails back into my spam file whenever I sent emails to friends and family that did not align with their leftist ideology. I complained to DSL Extreme and they assured me "no human sees your emails." That does not matter. A "human" at Google programs their logarithms to snoop and censor. I signed up with Proton Mail. No problems! Note: James O'Keefe, Project Veritas, uses Proton Mail.

Tress, there is enough cancel culture out there and I believe it's none of anybody's business of Bob's political leanings.
I do agree with you that Google is silencing conservative viewpoints, suppressing critical news, and promoting left-leaning idiocracies thereby interfering with the 2020 election, also any important news about where Covid 19 originated was taken down on YouTube until just recently.
Yes, Google can be evil, can do evil, and what that means for the future of our nation is yet to be exposed.
After saying all this, I still use Google, but I am always looking for something comparable and there hasn’t been anything close. I did get rid of those “Hey Google” “Alexa” and Apple “Siri” thingies :)

Someone pushed my button and I recall a recent reference in these pages about how Tim Berners-Lee is (errrr...) disappointed with the way his baby Web has grown-up to what it has become today. Okay, maybe we can say he has been singing the chicken-little song for over a decade for his idea of an "open-web" (as CTO of Inrupt) which maybe financially incentivized... Although, he has never specifically referenced that 600pound bear scarfing up any/all data as if s/he is just coming out of a long and foodless hibernation. It is also guaranteed that this bear will most certainly poop out all that data much much sooner than +/- 3 to 18 months or so. Unfortunately, this bear’s “data digestion” process has become even much much larger than the 600pound bear itself, since birth.
I am yet to find a real definition of what “TRUST” means besides being a self-serving feeling which has zero effect on the one that the TRUST is being laid upon (gorillas, bears and even autonomous vehicles). TRUST is but a binary moment in quantum-space and one which can be a fleeting moment in our terra firma; like vaporware, which may seem to be here this second but maybe gone the next. If I must; I’d rather take my chances in LV than putting all my eggs in one single basket, especially if that basket is 599pounds. ty

"Even if you delete all or some of your activity, Google still maintains records about the way you used its web browser related to the deleted data".
Business Insider

I generally believe Google has substantially failed in living it's "Do No Evil" creed, but the evil is more in their sociopolitical behavior than in their use of data aggregation. However, I try to use their products as little as is reasonable and I am untrusting of their continued support, having seen them abruptly lose interest in some product, likely based on financial return decisions. Their choice and, as the owner of two Surface RT tablets I must say they aren't the only *****'s out for our dough. Duck-Duck Go provides a decent, relatively anonymous alternative to Google Search for me.

Well, I had no problem using the link above. After signing in there was NO items to delete. All the slider buttons were turned off.
Actually, I was expecting to see a boatload of entry's but nothing what-so-ever.

Good article but my settings are like BDD all off, nothing to delete.

Google (Alphabet) is indeed evil. Remember back a few years ago when google had the moniker "Do No Evil" ?

And then it suddenly disappeared. Now why would ANY company post "Do No Evil" on their home page.

Answer: Because they are evil. Who would even think of posting a statement like that on their website in the first place? Only someone who had evil on their mind. This evil monster company is in cahoots with not only the 3 letter government agencies but also the CCP. You cannot get more evil than that.

@ BDD & Michael, see my post above. Just because you have deleted, or blocked, your activity doesn't mean Google doesn't have a record of it.