When you browse a web page or Google application, all your data is saved within your activity history. Its function is to later recommend announcements and recommendations regarding said activity, and historically it has been possible to manage it manually.
Over time, Google has been improving in this section, allowing the process to be done automatically, and adding more and more applications to the list, as it has done today in the case of YouTube. We are going to tell you how to automate the process of erasing this history, regardless of whether you use a mobile with iOS, Android or any other operating system.
Automating the process
The process that we are going to carry out requires browsing the Google activity website. You can access it directly, or through the Google application by clicking on More > Activity in search . In both ways, we will get to the section of our activity.
The Google activity section is quite clear. We will see some cards on which we can make modifications to taste
When we open this page, we will see two cards. The first refers to the fact that the activity is activated, and the second refers to the fact that said activity will be kept until we delete it manually. As we do not want this, we give it to ‘change this setting’, and we begin to put our hands.
When accessing this section we will see that, by default, the activity is saved until we delete it, but this may change. Specifically, these are the options we have (few, but less is nothing).
- Keep them until you delete it manually
- Keep them for 18 months
- Keep them for 3 months
Once we have clicked on the time that we want it to be stored, it is important to confirm it on the next page since, otherwise, the changes we have made will not be saved. These changes are permanent so, unless we want to return to this page to delete something manually, we do not have to worry about this section anymore.
To make sure for the last time that the changes have been effective, we return to More> Activity in the search, and confirm that the dates of automatic elimination of the activity in that section have been modified.
What if we want to go one step further?
We may not even want Google to constantly monitor our activity directly. If this is the case, we can deactivate the Activity section. Again, as throughout the tutorial, from More> Activity in search. Specifically, we must look for the Activity section on the Web and in applications, which we can deactivate or activate. Similarly, within this section there are two others, which refer to the type of information that is collected.
Pausing Google activity does not delete the data that has been collected, although we can do it afterwards
On the one hand, Chrome’s history and activity on the web and applications and, on the other, voice and audio recordings. If we want to stop this tracking, we can pause these activities. After doing so, Google will stop taking our data into account to send suggestions and recommendations.