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Better yet, delete the entire search history and turn it off.

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Not only that, you are being tracked in many other places. See the "Show more controls":

> https://www.google.com/settings/accounthistory

I have a handy page I knocked up that I use periodically to minimise my Google footprint:

http://www.jaruzel.com/How-Much-Does-Google-Know-About-Me

I thought I'd been careful with the settings but I think at some point I must have missed something, fucking android, last google phone I buy full stop.

You could've bought another phone instead of posting.

Why don't people just visit in incognito mode in the first place?

Because that's annoying, history is useful sometimes, and logging in to multiple times to multiple sites is a chore.

Edit: grammar

Not visit all sites in incognito. Visit this specific site in incognito, since it has "Ruin my history" in the title.

It depends. I have multiple windows (incognito and normal) containing many tabs. It takes copying the URL, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+V, Enter.

History is important, but the site is called "ruinmysearchhistory.com". I visit websites I know with my normal window, the rest is mostly in incognito and if it's something I want to remember, I'll make sure to include it (i.e: visit it in normal mode, Evernote, Bookmarks, email to myself, etc).

You could just 'Right Click->Open in Incognito' instead of manually copying the URL, at least in Chrome.

Firefox and Pale Moon both have "Open Link in New Private Window".

IE has some kind of private browsing option as well, but I don't know what would be the equivalent way to invoke it.

I do that when I'm already in incognito mode, not in normal mode because I don't know where the tab will be open (I have multiple incognito windows and I like to know where each tab is/will be).

I google things I don't want in my history in incognito mode. The question is: does it prevent being tracked by Google?

i do that too but i'm pretty sure my browser and my isp send enough information to google to perfectly identify me.

Even better yet, don't keep a logged-in session for these tracking-giants. I only ever log onto gmail in an incognito window (and if I had Facebook, same there). On my mobile device it's a different story, so even more better yet, also turn the search-history off (you're using DDG anyway, right ^_^)

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