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ronniejoe

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Feb 23, 2020
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I had gotten an iphone 13 mini not long ago. I set it up with my email account associated with it with apple. What I noticed was when I clicked on safari and then went to google to search, it shows a lot of things that I had searched for. How do you delete those and why does it show up there?


The thing that has me confused is lot of things that results that showed up on it, I remember typing that in another computer of mine but the thing is in that computer, I did not use the email that I"m logged in the new iphone right now. So can anyone explain how in the world does that even show up? The thing that is confusing about this is I'm using a chrome browser on the other computer to search on google. Yet when I use safari on the new iphone, some old searches show up?
 
Google saves EVERYthing. If you're logged into Google via a Gmail account you'll see your search history. My wife was logged into our Nest app on her phone using my Gmail and I was seeing her search result for all kinds of disturbing stuff - RHOBH, fashion nonsense, etc. I had to delete her search history in the browser, log her out, establish a Gmail account of her own, invite her to join our Nest family with that account, and log her into her new Gmail account.
 
Anything you do with google, any of their apps or services is saved by google on google servers. They are tracking you. It’s their business. A profile of your usage is created then sold to advertisers to try to target ads towards you. That’s how they make their billions of dollars.
 
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