Tutorial: How to protect your privacy on Android

The services Google offers on our Android smartphones are very practical and offer better consistency across many user devices (phone, PC, tablet, etc.). But they can also be intrusive at times. especially by keeping track of your web history or by constantly tracking your location. Not to mention the targeted ads we constantly find on the screens of our devices.

If all this is not so serious for some users, others will see it as real. intrusion into their privacy. Fortunately, it is quite possible to hide your private privacy from the American giant. Google Settings app Available by default on all terminals running Android by unchecking a few options. Here’s how.

clear your google history

In “Account History” section Your Search and web browsing history of the Google Settings app, which hides most of the options, the history of videos searched and viewed on YouTube, the history of voice recognition data, and the history of your locations tracking all the movements you make with your smartphone.

A total of six options, all of which can be disabled. By clicking the button “Manage History” You will find that even your voice calls are recorded and converted to text. You can even listen to it again if you want because yes, Google does indeed record your voice every time you make a voice search.

To disable an option, all you have to do is:

• go Google Settings > Account History

• Select the option you want to disable

• Uncheck the box to disable tracking

• see also : how to download and delete your search history

Stop Google from tracking you with GPS

All smartphones are equipped with a GPS. Practical, right? Especially for drivers, but it would be even better if Google didn’t log all of our trips.

Unfortunately this is the case. Fortunately, disabling this tracking is very easy, here’s how to do it.

• find in Google Settings > Location
• click “Google Location History”
• Disable tracking completely or uncheck the devices you want to disable tracking.
• Also, don’t forget to clear the history.

• To read : How to manage your location history on Android

How to avoid targeted advertising

After Google carefully collects your data using your search and browsing history, the dev sends you targeted ads. After all, the closer an ad is to the target’s center of interest, the better your chances of clicking it, and Google and advertisers know this.

Again, fortunately, the user still has the option to disable targeted ads. All you have to do is:

• go Google Settings > Ads
• Uncheck the option “Disable interest-based ads”

Attention is disabled only when the option is checked.