On Thursday, March 1st the privacy policy at Google will change. This change will effect all Google accounts; Gmail, YouTube, docs, Picasa, blogger, reader, calendar, talk, and the list goes on and on! Google offers a lot of great services. “Google it” is even a common phrase! The new policy states that it will not sell your information to outside companies but will use the data to help provide better search results, user preferences that help display local ads or advertisement that is specific to “you” according to your uses of the Google suite of products/services available. As of now there are 3 options to help you deal with the “sharing” of your Google internet preferences.
1) Don’t use any Google products or services (use Yahoo or Bing, no substitute for YouTube)
2) Do not log into your Google account (surf anonymously)
3) Log into your Google account, manage your account from the dashboard, choose privacy, and click on “remove my history”.
But with all of that said… they are all tracking us in one way or another.
