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Password Protecting Google Search History

Google search history has all your secrets and online whereabouts. It is best to keep it protected. Here is how you can do that.

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Boudhaditya Sanyal
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Protecting Google search History

If someone wants to know about you and what have you been up to, the best way to do that is by checking your search history. Google activity tab stores all the data from websites like YouTube, Netflix, Instagram, etc. The search history is also very easy to access. One just has to use the Ctrl+H command on Google Chrome and the page will be right in front of you.

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This can reveal a lot of things about you, and a way to password protect it can be reassuring. Now can password protect your Google Search history by following some very easy steps.

Steps for Protecting Google Search History

There are a few simple steps that you can follow in order to lock your search history page.

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  1. Go to activity.google.com
  2. Click on manage my Activity verification
  3. Click on Require extra verification
  4. Save

Now when someone takes your phone and tries to open the activity page, they will need to enter the set password. This will keep all your secrets safe. There are multiple other benefits of this too.

This safeguards your important official work from being edited or deleted by accident. This also prevents people from knowing what you are up to. However, one thing that you need to remember that this only protects the activity page from being accessed by other users. Google can still know your search history and access it. So can your internet provider.

Protecting Google search history is always a good idea.

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