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Small guide to improve the privacy and performance of google

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Just a small guide to improve the privacy and performance of google.

Default search engine

Even though google is not the most privacy centered browser in the world, you can still strip out a bunch of the AI and advertising crud

To do this you can change your default search engine to https://google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 (you can replace .com with your regional address)

Extensions

Google account settings

  1. Navigate to the Google Data and Privacy settings
    1. Turn off advertisement personalization
    2. Go through third party apps and services connected to Google and remove the ones you don't use anymore
    3. Disable store saved app info form signed in devices
  2. Navigate to your Google activity page
    1. Enable Google to auto-delete search history older than 3 months old
    2. Disable and delete web and app activity OPTIONAL (I highly recommend keeping the YouTube history as it kinda breaks without it)
  3. Navigate to your Google security page
    1. Go to your devices and remove any devices that you don't use anymore
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