However, if you’d rather Google didn’t collate or track all your activities across the various Google products that you use, there are a few simple measures you can take to stop it.
- Sign-out of your Google account. This only works when using certain Google products. For some, such as YouTube, you can use the service without being signed-in. Obviously, this method isn’t much good if you want to check your Gmail. If you want to see whether you are signed-in or not, check the top-right of your screen.
- Create multiple Google accounts. You could create one for each product that you use so that your activities or data are limited to one account at a time. You can then sign-in with multiple accounts in one browser although for some services, you can only sign-in to one Google account per browser at any one time which could become a bit messy and annoying.
- Customise your Google privacy settings. Google does offer a privacy customization page where you can tweak your settings for various apps. However, it isn’t clear whether these will still work once the new privacy policy takes effect on March 1st.
Read the rest of my OnSoftware piece about How to stop Google tracking you across services.
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