Accessing a user's browsing history on Google allows you to delve into their privacy. Know, based on your searches, what worries you, what you are interested in and even some of your most hidden passions.
Because when you type in the search engine, you do it alone, far from prejudice, and you dare to ask about any topic.
How to Password Protect
Keeping track of the thoughts on the keyboard was, until now, as easy as consulting the search history. Before anyone's eyes, details appeared that the user might prefer to keep to himself.
That is why Google has incorporated a novelty and allows, from this week, to incorporate a password that encrypts the content of your walk through the network.
In this way, it offers an additional layer of security that allows the information stored in the "My Activity" section to be safeguarded.
The password protects searches, the history of the websites visited and that of the videos on YouTube from prying eyes.
How to limit access to your browsing history?
The users themselves have to ask for the password to be enabled because the new service does not come by default. How to do it?
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These are the steps you have to follow to encrypt access to your transit through Google and its services.
Access the "My Activity on Google" section. Select the option «Manage verification of My Activity». A pop-up window will open with two options. Activate the one that says "needs additional verification." It is the first to appear.
Once you have done this, Google will require your usual password, which is the same one you use to access, for example, Gmail. Once you have done it, you will have shielded one more piece of your privacy.
